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Seven novels to read if you’re obsessed with Elif Batuman.

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Seven novels to read if you’re obsessed with Elif Batuman.
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What is it about the campus novel? Even for those of us who didn’t attend Ivy-drenched Northeastern institutions, the genre appeals. Yet the novel that truly captures the undergraduate brain—with its suite of neuroses and affectations—is rare.
Elif Batuman’s The Idiot—and her 2022 sequel, Either/Or—certainly make the cut. And if BookTok is anything to go by, these books are still gaining fans. Maybe it’s because there’s a hapless Selin in all of us. Or maybe it’s be

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