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Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman is a doctoral candidate in literature at Stanford University. She is also a contributor to the literary magazine n+1.

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  • The Passion of Anna

    June 21, 2006

    In Elaine Feinstein's new biography, the complicated life of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is flattened into a fable of suffering and redemption.

2005

  • Rearranging the Furniture

    October 6, 2005 Subscribe

    For prose scholar Viktor Shklovsky, who lived by the code of style and studied its depths, an unhappy love affair can be as much a personal tragedy as a plot device for more writing.

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