Batuman’s follow-up to “The Idiot” follows the same character into her second year at Harvard. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Do you remember what it felt like to be a college sophomore? The Jell-O shots, cookie dough and moments of abject humiliation and terror as you tried, oh so self ...

The author Elif Batuman and some of her favorites. Illustration: Eliana Rodgers The author Elif Batuman and some of her favorites. Illustration: Eliana Rodgers I’m always trying to live an easy life.

“People might be surprised to see a shelf with almost nothing on it except a copy of Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’” says the author, whose new novel is “Either/Or.” “I was ...

Literary sequels are difficult to pull off. I read Elif Batuman’s new novel, “Either/Or,” directly after rereading her 2017 novel, “The Idiot.” That’s 700 pages of the same naive adolescent character, ...

"The joys of Batuman's fiction lie . . . in Selin herself--her lively voice, her comic observations, and her marriage of literature and philosophy with the potentially oppressive banality of ...

Elif Batuman has turned her years in college into another book. Her highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 Pulitzer finalist The Idiot is out on Tuesday – and the lively, witty, inquisitive protagonist ...

For teenagers, every life question can feel existential. It was like that for Elif Batuman, who found meaning through literature and creative writing. Her new book Either/Or – the sequel to The Idiot ...

While attending a pilates lesson, Selin ponders the question of having children. Why does anyone do it? Is it really worth it? Perhaps the point of having kids is to have someone take care of you when ...

For her article "Joint association of alcohol consumption and adiposity with alcohol and obesity-related cancer in a population sample of 399,575 UK adults", Dr. Elif Inan-Eroglu from the German ...