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Since childhood, Elif Batuman has been on a quest to find in literature “direct relevance to lived experience, especially to love.” Following her doctoral dissertation at Stanford, which explored how ...

Many people naturally gravitate to simplistic thinking. It’s fast, it feels like common sense in the moment, and can sometimes be captured by slogans that use alliteration, rhymes, or parallel ...

Elif Batuman’s new novel Either/Or forms, with her earlier The Idiot, a brilliant and deft epic of intellectual and artistic tragedy, a sort of anti-Kunstlerroman in which a young woman in her first ...

With her debut novel “The Idiot” having been crowned a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Elif Batuman set towering expectations for the sequel “Either/Or.” Beginning where the first novel left ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...

One of the most difficult adjustments I had to make during my corporate career was abandoning a black-and-white mindset. Typically, I am a matter-of-fact individual who is methodical and logical in ...

It can be difficult to find a funny and smart literary novel that’s also full of heart, but New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman’s 2017 novel, “The Idiot,” nailed it. That book chronicled the 1995-96 ...

“Every outfit I tried on was either too casual, too loud or too frumpy.” A funny thing about language: When you use it without thinking, you usually do just fine. It’s only when you stop and question ...