A review by quietdomino
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman

2.0

Despite sometimes beautiful prose, an author clearly both fiercely intelligent and possessed of a wry wit, and a topic near and dear to my heart, I found this book frequently unbearable. That's perhaps more my fault than hers, though I maintain that the capacious love of literature the book purports to explore is hard to identify in an author so remarkably self-centered.