Longform Podcast: Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and "Japan's Rent-a-Family Industry" Your browser does not support the audio player. Click here to download the podcast. Show Notes @BananaKarenina Batuman on Longform Batuman's archive at The New Yorker Batuman's archive at Harper's Batuman's archive at London Review of Books Longform Podcast t-shirts [1:00] “Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry” (The New Yorker • Apr 2018) [10:00] The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2010) [10:00] The Demons (Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Russian Messenger • 1812) [11:00] The Idiot (Penguin Book • 2017) [14:00] Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (Lennard Davis • Columbia University Press • 1983) [20:00] The Exception (Christian Jungersen • Anchor • 2008) [21:00] The End of the Story: A Novel (Lydia Davis • Picador • 2004) [27:00] Culture and Imperialism (Edward Said • Vintage • 1994) [28:00] Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Soren Kierkegaard • Victor Eremita • 1843) [29:00] Nadja (Andre Breton • Grove Press • 1960) [38:00] Scrivener
