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Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What Is the Ethical Question About Saving the Boy?

"Clive's life is not only boring, but if it feels like he's under constant surveillance," she says. "Maybe that's what reminded me of my adolescence ... someone's always watching you." The story ends with clive deciding to save a boy who has been abandoned by his family.

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