WebBrowse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the Cuyahoga County Public Library digital collection. WebMar 14, 2024 · Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read …

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WebElif Batuman has sung the praises of "long novels, pointless novels," and she puts her money where her mouth is with The Idiot, a tale of youthful confusion that can be both … WebApr 10, 2024 · The Idiot by Elif Batuman. Posted on April 10, 2024 by Mike Bahl. Mike’s review. Plot summary: nope. It follows a year in the life of a freshman at Harvard in the 90’s. So there’s the college-aged mix of everything and nothing. Selin, the narrator, is unique compared to most college kids in that she knows this is both everything and nothing. cabinet joti

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WebJun 21, 2024 · Elif Batuman’s Either/Or is the long-awaited sequel to her 2024 debut The Idiot, which catalogued its narrator Selin’s experiences throughout her freshman year at Harvard in the early days of the … WebIt is Batuman’s deadpan humor and naturalistic storytelling that make The Idiot into a worthwhile read. The novel’s latter half was slightly less enjoyable than the first but I was still for the most part absorbed by … WebElif Batuman, author of the semiautobiographical 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Idiot, ponders the relationship between art and politics in her new sequel, Either/Or. She looks back to a time in her life when she felt the need to choose between being “a literature person” and “a politics person” — and the events portrayed in the ... cabinet kouassi