REPLAY: Elif Batuman on Immigration, Humiliation, and Reading the Russians

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 506, my conversation with Elif Batuman, author of the novel The Idiot (Penguin), a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2018.

Air date: February 28, 2018.

Elif Batuman’s other books include the novel Either/Or and The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

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