Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate our thinking. Either/or thinking ...

In the blink of an eye, a former auto parts store converted into a restaurant, with plans to open on Friday. Whitney and Scott Selix and business partner Zack Dunbar of Lua Brewing fame bring ...

With her debut novel “The Idiot” having been crowned a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Elif Batuman set towering expectations for the sequel “Either/Or.” Beginning where the first novel left ...

It can be difficult to find a funny and smart literary novel that’s also full of heart, but New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman’s 2017 novel, “The Idiot,” nailed it. That book chronicled the 1995-96 ...

Since childhood, Elif Batuman has been on a quest to find in literature “direct relevance to lived experience, especially to love.” Following her doctoral dissertation at Stanford, which explored how ...

Literary sequels are difficult to pull off. I read Elif Batuman’s new novel, “Either/Or,” directly after rereading her 2017 novel, “The Idiot.” That’s 700 pages of the same naive adolescent character, ...

Elif Batuman’s latest novel, “Either/Or,” drops you into 1996, where Selin is a second-year Harvard student. As the reader, unsure how you’ve ended up in 1996, you accept that she is now your best ...

Articles on the dilemmas of an either/or approach to politics, religion or international relations are fairly common these days. What can be more easily overlooked are the long-lasting effects of an ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...

Elif Batuman has turned her years in college into another book. Her highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 Pulitzer finalist The Idiot is out on Tuesday – and the lively, witty, inquisitive protagonist ...

One of the most difficult adjustments I had to make during my corporate career was abandoning a black-and-white mindset. Typically, I am a matter-of-fact individual who is methodical and logical in ...