I can’t really comment on her new book, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, but I can say that based on things I’ve read by and about Elif Batuman in the past, I’m willing to place my money in the “I’m going to like this” category. 1.  From Sam Anderson’s New York Magazine review: ” She’s obsessed, above all, with the strange angles at which classic literature intersects with the world. She witnesses backstage […]