The PossessedThe Possessed draws on Elif Batuman's articles in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n+1 to tell the true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her many strange encounters with scholars devoted to classic Russian writers. In a series of intertwined essays about her lifeand other people's livesin the world of Russian literature and scholarship, Batuman has written a funny, smart, and self deprecating book about