Elif Batuman and Merve Emre: Either/Or

Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed and The Idiot, talks to Merve Emre about her latest novel Either/Or. International travel, Harvard, Hungary and of course literature and philosophy collide in a heart-breaking and hilarious coming-of-age story by one of our most consistently thought-provoking writers.

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