In her delightful debut nonfiction book, “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15 paperback), writer Elif Batuman explores the ...

Batuman’s follow-up to “The Idiot” follows the same character into her second year at Harvard. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Further to the full approval of the Turkish competition authority Huhtamaki has completed the acquisition of Elif Holding A.Ş. (Elif), a major supplier of sustainable flexible packaging to global FMCG ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elif Batuman told an interviewer recently that one of the things she loves about writing from the point of view ...

There is a certain type of reader who, working her way through Proust, can think only of her own most recent heartbreak. She might be shy and bookish; certainly she is young. This reader might of ...

In “The Possessed” (2010), her smart and spirited chronicle of her obsession with Russian literature, Elif Batuman described her younger self as someone who cared more about beauty than truth – before ...

ELIF Karaarslan is the stunning referee accused of being at the centre of a sex tape scandal that shocked Turkish football. The female official has been slapped with a lifetime ban after allegedly ...