Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate our thinking. Either/or thinking ...

With her debut novel “The Idiot” having been crowned a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Elif Batuman set towering expectations for the sequel “Either/Or.” Beginning where the first novel left ...

It can be difficult to find a funny and smart literary novel that’s also full of heart, but New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman’s 2017 novel, “The Idiot,” nailed it. That book chronicled the 1995-96 ...

Since childhood, Elif Batuman has been on a quest to find in literature “direct relevance to lived experience, especially to love.” Following her doctoral dissertation at Stanford, which explored how ...

Elif Batuman’s latest novel, “Either/Or,” drops you into 1996, where Selin is a second-year Harvard student. As the reader, unsure how you’ve ended up in 1996, you accept that she is now your best ...

Literary sequels are difficult to pull off. I read Elif Batuman’s new novel, “Either/Or,” directly after rereading her 2017 novel, “The Idiot.” That’s 700 pages of the same naive adolescent character, ...

Elif Batuman has turned her years in college into another book. Her highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 Pulitzer finalist The Idiot is out on Tuesday – and the lively, witty, inquisitive protagonist ...

Articles on the dilemmas of an either/or approach to politics, religion or international relations are fairly common these days. What can be more easily overlooked are the long-lasting effects of an ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...

While attending a pilates lesson, Selin ponders the question of having children. Why does anyone do it? Is it really worth it? Perhaps the point of having kids is to have someone take care of you when ...