Who is the titular fool of Elif Batuman’s 2017 novel The Idiot? It’s plainly Selin, the heroine, a goofy kid from New Jersey with a hyperactive mind, freshly matriculated at Harvard. But it’s also Ivan, a classmate from beginning Russian with whom she’s besotted. It’s every friend or acquaintance Selin meets, because the essential qualities […]
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