Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 506, my conversation with <a href="https://elifbatuman.com">Elif Batuman</a>, author of the novel <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/20530/9780143111061">The Idiot</a> (Penguin), a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2018.
Air date: February 28, 2018.
Elif Batuman’s other books include the novel Either/Or and&nbsp;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&nbsp;The New Yorker&nbsp;since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.
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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&nbsp;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&nbsp;The New Yorker&nbsp;since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

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

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