Doesn't look like it, but my attempts to reconcile bibliographies found on Wikipedia, on Elif Batuman's web site, from the table of contents of various books, and (especially) from the indices of online magazines were actually pretty time consuming. Not to mention frustrating and exhausting. But now I have it (I think):
The Even Completer Complete Elif Batuman Bibliography
In chronological order, of course.
2005
February 2005 "Babel in California" n+1
This essay also appears in Happiness: Ten Years of n+1 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. And in The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
September 2005 "Adventures of a Man of Science" n+1
2006
January 8, 2006 "Cool Heart" The New Yorker
May 2006 "Short Story & Novel" n+1
May 21, 2006 "The Ice Renaissance" The New Yorker
2008
November 2008 "Summer in Samarkand" n+1
This essay also appears in The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
2009
February 2009 "The Murder of Leo Tolstoy" Harper's
This essay also appears in The Best American Essays 2010 Mariner Books. I'm thinking it is probably also the same essay which appears as "Who Killed Tolstoy?" which appears in The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
April 20, 2009 "The Bells" The New Yorker
August 24, 2009 "Safe Laughs"The New Yorker
2010
February 16, 2010 The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Contents: Introduction / Babel in California / Summer in Samarkand / Who Killed Tolstoy? / Summer in Samarkland (Continued) / The House of Ice / Summer in Samarkland (Conclusion) / The Possessed
February 16, 2010 "CSI Pushkin’s House" The New Yorker
February 17, 2010 "Pushkin Reloaded" The New Yorker
February 17, 2010 "Pushkin's Favorite Tree" The New Yorker
February 19, 2010 "Android Karenina" The New Yorker
April 2010 "Summer in Samarkand, Part II" n+1
This essay also appears in The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
April 12, 2010 "The Memory Kitchen" The New Yorker
September 22, 2010 “Kafka’s Last Trial,” New York Times Magazine
September 23, 2010 "Get a Real Degree" London Review of Books
December 31, 2010 "From the Critical Impulse, the Growth of Literature" The New York Times
2011
February 27, 2011 "The View from the Stands" The New Yorker
April 21, 2011 "Elif Batuman: Life after a bestseller" The Guardian
September 2011 “A Divine Comedy: Among the Danteans in Florence,” Harper’s
September 5, 2011 "In the World" The New Yorker
October 17, 2011 "Natural Histories" The New Yorker
December 11, 2011 "Turkey’s Ancient Sanctuary" The New Yorker
2012
January 2, 2012 “Why Criticism Matters,” New York Times
May 2, 2012 "The Phantom Matzo Factory" The New Yorker
June 7, 2012 Diary (Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence) London Review of Books
July 9, 2012 "Talking Drums" The New Yorker
December 16, 2012 "Stage Mothers" The New Yorker
2013
January 1, 2013 Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake, self-published;
accompanied by separate book with a short essay by Batuman
February 1, 2013 "Death in Ankara" The New Yorker
February 15, 2013 "A Meteor in the Russian Sky" The New Yorker
June 1, 2013 "Occupy Gezi: Police Against Protesters in Istanbul" The New Yorker
June 13, 2013 "Lost in Taksim Square" The New Yorker
July 16, 2013 "Istanbul’s Troubled Gardens: Gezi Park’s Flowers" The New Yorker
July 17, 2013 "Istanbul’s Troubled Gardens: Yedikule’s Lettuce" The New Yorker
August 5, 2013 "A Medical Mystery in the Balkans" The New Yorker
August 12, 2013 "Poisoned Land" The New Yorker
This essay also appears in The Best American Travel Writing 2014 Mariner Books.
December 12, 2013 "Eight Reasons Why We Love End-of-the-Year Lists" The New Yorker
2014
February 9, 2014 "Ottomania" The New Yorker
August 22, 2014 "What Does It Mean to Compare Ferguson to Iraq?"
The New Yorker
September 9, 2014 "The Awkward Age" The New Yorker
October 10, 2014 "Marriage Is an Abduction" The New Yorker
December 18, 2014 "The Myth of the Megalith" The New Yorker
2015
March 30, 2015 "Electrified: Adventures in Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation" The New Yorker
April 7, 2015 "Brontosaurus Rising" The New Yorker
April 13, 2015 "Reading Racist Literature" The New Yorker
August 24, 2015 "The Treasures Under Istanbul" The New Yorker
August 31, 2015 “The Big Dig” The New Yorker
This essay also appears in The Passenger: Turkey, published January 12, 2021.
September 16, 2015 "Palm to Palm with an Ancient Human Relative" The New Yorker
October 5, 2015 "How to Dupe a Dung Beetle" The New Yorker
December 14, 2015 "Hanya Yanagihara’s 'Sex and the City'” The New Yorker
December 24, 2015 "The Ghosts of Christmas: Was Scrooge the First Psychotherapy Patient?" The New Yorker
2016
January 31, 2016 "The Head Scarf, Modern Turkey, and Me" The New Yorker
February 8 and 15, 2016."The Head Scarf, Modern Turkey, and Me" The New Yorker
This essay also appears in The Best American Travel Writing 2017 Mariner Books as "Cover Story."
March 23, 2016 "Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator" The New Yorker
May 13, 2016 "Bison Bison Bison" The New Yorker
August 1, 2016 "Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary" The New Yorker
August 9, 2016 "Ghosts From Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively" The New Yorker
August 17, 2016 "Psychos Through the Ages" The New Yorker
December 19–26, 2016 "How to Be a Stoic" The New Yorker
2017
January 15, 2017 "Constructed Worlds" The New Yorker
August 9, 2017 "Time-Travelling with Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary" The New Yorker
November 27, 2017 "Searching for Motives in Mass Shootings" The New Yorker
2018
February 13, 2018 The Idiot Penguin Books
April 30, 2018.“A Theory of Relativity” The New Yorker
April 30, 2018 "Japan's Rent-a-Family Industry" The New Yorker--which must be the same thing as the previous entry, but I haven't yet verified that, and I'm a cautious bibliographer.
November 23, 2018 “Zantedeschia Aethiopica” T Magazine
2019
November 1, 2019 “The Age of The Age of Innocence“ (adapted from the introduction to the Penguin Classics 100th anniversary reissue of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence), The New York Times
2020
September 1, 2020.“Can Greek Tragedy Get Us Through The Pandemic?” The New Yorker
2022
January 31, 2022 (print issue of 7 February)“Céline Sciamma’s Quest for a New, Feminist Grammar of Cinema” The New Yorker
April 25 & May 2, 2022 “The Repugnant Conclusion” The New Yorker
May 24, 2022 Either / Or Penguin Press
Putting this together and looking at it in one fell swoop it really hits me how hard Elif Batuman worked to become a writer. It takes a lot of guts to keep on pushing like this...but in her case, it looks like it paid off, at least.
Hats off to Elif Batuman!
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