The Idiot is animated by the pleasures and frustrations of different forms of knowledge
Elif Batuman's novel follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer through her first year at Harvard.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Elif Batuman's novel follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer through her first year at Harvard.
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