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  • 05.11.17
    The Babel Conference
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    The Possessed

    The Babel Conference

    Elif Batuman's new novel The Idiot, published by Penguin Press, has been lauded as "a hefty, gorgeous, digressive slab of a book." It tells the story of Selin, the introverted, tall daughter of Turkish immigrants in her first year at Harvard. The...

    Elif Batuman The Possessed

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