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Elena Ferrante Returns to Naples

A new novel delights, but reveals decay

October 8, 2020 • by Daniel DiMassa

————— The four novels in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan saga were a literary sensation when they appeared between 2011 and 2015. Now she’s back with a new novel in seven parts, The Lying Life of Adults, with a translation by Ann Goldstein. Though no less compelling than her blockbuster series, the smaller ...

Season one of ‘My Brilliant Friend’

December 23, 2018 • by Marissa Brostoff

I think they are cockroaches, streaming out of the sewer by the thousands, but they might be rats -- we see them from a distance, and because it is dark and there are no people in the shot, just the empty street and the dirty white cement of the housing ...

Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante Returns to Naples

A new novel delights, but reveals decay

Tiny Animals

Season one of ‘My Brilliant Friend’

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