Elif Batuman

The ingenious, hilarious new novel from award-winning writer Elif Batuman - It's a novel about being young and stupid that's both wise and clever - and it's a treat Evening Standard I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it Emma Cline, author of The Girls SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Selin, a...

A pitch-perfect encapsulation of one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood. The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood. Elif Batuman is the queen of the campus novel......

'Kafka himself would love it' The i 'As captivating as it is thought-provoking' Glamour 'Unsettling and uneasy' Daily Mail 'Glorious' Harper's Bazaar A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? In this collection...

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death. Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What...

The Possessed draws on Elif Batuman's articles in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n+1 to tell the true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her many strange encounters with scholars devoted to classic Russian writers. In a series of intertwined essays about her life—and other people's lives—in the world of Russian literature and scholarship, Batuman has...