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The Idiot

by Elif Batuman

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  1. The Funniest Books of All TimeReading list
    Another woman who should be in jail for being a verified actual genius — her pieces for the New Yorker are \chef’s kiss\ — but writing a book that is “group of 16 comedy writers in a room” level of funny. It’s a novel about an 18-year-old Harvard student developing a crush on an older student and then doing……
  2. Kayla Rae WhitakerInterview
    Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash, Marlena by Julie Buntin, The Idiot by Elif Batuman and Why I Am Not a Feminist by Jessa Crispin.
  3. Peter WorleyInterview
    ‘Fall in love’ is not quite the right expression for me. It was tied in with trauma. I had become introduced to philosophy through literature and through exploring religion as a teenager. I read a lot of Dostoyevsky and was struck by existentialist thinking, particularly in The Idiot, Notes from Underground and Notes…

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