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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 Them." The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction and may be purchased from IndieBound.