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Elif Batuman
May 23, 2022
Sophie Haigney
Elif Batuman’s Experiment With Eventfulness
How much has to happen in a novel?
December 17, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
How
The New Yorker
Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap
Elif Batuman was duped by a source’s fabrications about the country’s rent-a-family industry. What went wrong?
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