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Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. The sequel, Either/Or, was published in 2022. She is a 2024 fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She has been a staff writer at New Yorker since 2010.