Boiled Down

March 18, 2017 | 1 book mentioned

“Like reading, love works in roughly the same way every time, but the details of any given case are irreducibly particular, and it’s in the details that everything happens.” Lidija Haas on Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot. (You could also read our review by Virginia Marshall.)

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.