Either/Or

Our funniest overthinker - and the queen of the campus novel… Selin is a droll and disarming narrator, and takes her place as one of the finest hapless scholars in the literary canon. – Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *
Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were … This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations. – Dwight Garner * The New York Times *
A richly suggestive and amusing book. – Jonathan Derbyshire * Financial Times *
Such an enchanting writer. – Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *
Either/Or is both an entertaining campus novel and an engaging disquisition on the very nature and purpose of novels. * Financial Times, Summer Reads of 2022 *
Stupendous … hilarious… Batuman is a genius, rendering human folly at its most colorful and borderline surreal – Lauren Mechling * Vogue *
The central pleasure of reading Elif Batuman’s ferociously intelligent fiction…[is] the thrill of encountering things you already half-knew, rendered in language with lyrical precision… hopefully, there will be a third installment of the adventures of Elif Batuman’s brilliantly modern picaro. * Times Literary Supplement *
Wonderfully idiosyncratic… Charming – Alex Clark * Guardian *
Delightful… Batuman has a formidable deadpan wit… Selin is not only an astute observer but displays a touching capacity for awe. * Spectator *
A charming, mordantly funny follow-up to her first novel… triumphal. * Daily Mail *

Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

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