‘New Yorker’ staff writer Elif Batuman talks about her Turkish-American roots and her new novel, which follows a young woman's first year at Harvard University in the ‘90s, and how she finds love through email. It’s based on her own experiences. Also, writer Daniel Torday reflects on the vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. Milo Miles reviews Sxip Shirey’s album ‘A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees.’
