Elena Ferrante (All reviews)
- Feb 18 2021
Patricia Lockwood on Elena Ferrante
— LRB - Feb 9 2021
Netflix on Track to Open Italy Hub, Plans to Double Down on Local Originals (EXCLUSIVE)
— Variety - Sep 7 2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante — truth about adolescence
— The Financial Times - Sep 3 2020
Elena Ferrante in The Guardian
— The Guardian - Sep 1 2020
The best books to read this September
— RED - Sep 1 2020
Elena Ferrante’s Master Class on Deceit
— The Atlantic - Aug 30 2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante review – a bracing return to Naples
— The Observer - Aug 30 2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, review: a tale of disgust and disillusionment
— The Telegraph - Aug 29 2020
Elena Ferrante returns to Naples, and to familiar themes
— The Economist - Aug 29 2020
50 books to look out for this autumn
— The Times - Aug 29 2020
A story without redemption: The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante, reviewed
— The Spectator - Aug 27 2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante review: grown-ups behaving badly
— The Evening Standard - Aug 27 2020
All the best new books of the summer
— The Tatler - Aug 27 2020
"It leaves you gasping."
— The Daily Mail - Aug 26 2020
“The story is compulsive”
— The Times - Aug 23 2020
Elena Ferrante: The Lying Life of Adults review - a universal Neapolitan adolescence
— The Art Desk - Aug 22 2020
"An incendiary portrait of the volcanic currents of sex and betrayal rumbling away beneath polite society, it hints at more to come".
— The Mail on Sunday - Aug 19 2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante review – a girl's own story
— The Guardian - Aug 16 2020
Elena Ferrante's 'Lying Life Of Adults' Is A Story Of Innocence And Experience
— Esquire - Aug 16 2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, review — the My Brilliant Friend author is back
— The Sunday Times - Aug 14 2020
Vogue’s top 10 books of 2020 (plus 10 more we’ve already pre-ordered)
— Vogue (Australia) - Aug 14 2020
“The novel is an excellent read”
— The New York Times - Sep 21 2019
The 100 best books of the 21st century
— The Guardian - Nov 19 2018
From Fellini to Ferrante: the cinematic vision of My Brilliant Friend
— The Guardian - Nov 15 2018
How Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend became a TV drama
— The Times - Nov 15 2018
‘My Brilliant Friend’ Review: Ferrante Adaptation Packs an Emotional Wallop
— Rolling Stone - Nov 11 2018
‘I fell in love with Lila’: on the set of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend
— The Observer - Nov 11 2018
My Brilliant Friend Television Series: Everything You Need To Know
— Vogue UK - Aug 30 2018
The Greatest Literary Work of the Last Decade Will Be a Gorgeous HBO Series
— Esquire - Sep 26 2017
Jonathan Franzen: 'I defy anyone to finish it without wetting the pages with tears'
— The Guardian - Sep 11 2017
Seven European bestsellers you should read in 2017
— BBC Radio 4 - Aug 2 2017
BookREVIEW: Days of Abandonment
— Contemporary Psychotherapy - Jul 25 2017
On Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante
— Kenyon Review - Jul 20 2017
28 of the best books for your summer holiday
— The Telegraph - Jul 11 2017
Best holiday reads 2017, picked by writers – part two
— The Observer - Jun 28 2017
Seven European bestsellers you should read in 2017
— BBC Radio 4 - Jun 22 2017
Sausages and greens, Napoli-style, from Rachel Roddy
— The Guardian - Jun 12 2017
SIX NOVELS THAT NAIL THE BFF RELATIONSHIP
— The Debrief - Jun 8 2017
Future Classics: 50 Literary Greats
— Barnes & Noble - Jun 8 2017
Ferrante's Secret Mirror
— Public Books - Apr 14 2017
Frantumaglia, A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante tr. Ann Goldstein
— Word by Word - Apr 10 2017
Why Readers Love Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
— Aspen Institute - Mar 22 2017
My Brilliant Friend, theatre review: Ambitious, satisfying attempt to realise Elena Ferrante's world
— Evening Standard - Mar 19 2017
My Brilliant Friend review – intensity wins through
— The Observer - Mar 14 2017
My Brilliant Friend review – triumphant staging of Elena Ferrante's quartet
— The Guardian - Mar 12 2017
My Brilliant Friend: a fleet, sleek adaptation of Ferrante's novels – review
— The Telegraph - Mar 8 2017
Elena Ferrante’s Naples Novels to Make Their Way to TV
— The New York Times - Mar 6 2017
25 Years Of Troubling Love: Ferrante's Women & The Fight For Privacy
— The Quietus - Mar 4 2017
How on earth do you put 1,600 pages of Elena Ferrante on stage?
— The Spectator - Mar 1 2017
From page to stage: Meet the woman bringing the mysterious Elena Ferrante to life
— The Telegraph - Mar 1 2017
A total portrait of the artist as an absence
— Bookanista - Jan 13 2017
‘Elena Ferrante was more challenging than Tolstoy’
— The Times - Jan 11 2017
Casting announced for Elena Ferrante stage adaptation
— The Stage - Dec 22 2016
Novelist sheds light on shadowy life
— lfpress.com - Dec 17 2016
The best books for children this Christmas 2016
— Evening Standard - Dec 1 2016
Rifling through Elena Ferrante’s writing desk
— The Spectator - Dec 1 2016
Romantic notions: does fiction warp our thinking about love?
— The Irish Times - Nov 28 2016
Best books of 2016 – part two
— The Guardian - Nov 26 2016
Best books of 2016 – part one
— The Guardian - Nov 26 2016
Best books of 2016 – part one
— The Guardian - Nov 24 2016
Books of the year
— The Times Literary Supplement - Nov 21 2016
The World Tonight
— BBC - Nov 21 2016
Ruth Scurr on Elena Ferrante
— TLS Voices - Nov 16 2016
Elena Ferrante: Game of clothes
— The Times Literary Supplement - Nov 16 2016
‘“THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF BUTTERFLIES WITH SONOROUS WINGS”: A REVIEW OF ELENA FERRANTE’S “FRANTUMAGLIA”’, BY ELLENA SAVAGE
— The Lifted Brow - Nov 16 2016
#RivetingReviews: Alison Cole reviews FRANTUMAGLIA by Elena Ferrante
— European Literature Network - Nov 15 2016
‘Be Silent, Recover My Strength, Start Again’: In Conversation with Elena Ferrante
— Hazlitt - Nov 14 2016
Elena Ferrante on the Myth of Inspiration, Writing on Demand, and the Central Truth of the Creative Process
— Brain Pickings - Nov 13 2016
"Writing is everything and I am nothing": the vanishing acts of Elena Ferrante
— The New Statesman - Nov 10 2016
On Frantumaglia and the Real Mystery of Elena Ferrante
— Asymptote - Nov 7 2016
Story of the other writer
— The Hindu - Nov 7 2016
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante: a life in pieces
— The Australian - Nov 7 2016
Frantumaglia & The Beach at Night – November Books of the Month
— Turnaround - Nov 7 2016
Frantumaglia & The Beach at Night – November Books of the Month
— Turnaround Blog - Nov 6 2016
Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante
— The Times - Nov 6 2016
Sunday Book: Elena Ferrante - Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey The recently outed author of the Neopolitan Quartet spills some beans
— The Art Desk - Nov 5 2016
Elena Ferrante: how to see an invisible author
— The Telegraph - Nov 2 2016
Ferrante for Kids, The Harvard Lampoon’s Best, and More Books to Read This Month
— Vanity Fair - Oct 31 2016
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
— The Times - Oct 31 2016
Elena Ferrante, Private Novelist
— New Republic - Oct 31 2016
Elena Ferrante: Hiding in Plain Sight
— The New York Times - Oct 30 2016
Benedict Cumberbatch, Tasmin Little, Elena Ferrante
— BBC - Oct 30 2016
Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante review – astute, revelatory ruminations
— The Guardian - Oct 28 2016
Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante - review
— The Evening Standard - Oct 27 2016
Fall to Pieces: On Elena Ferrante and My Own Frantumaglia
— Hazlitt - Oct 27 2016
Ten books to read in November
— BBC.com - Oct 25 2016
5 scariest lines from Elena Ferrante's creepy children's book The Beach at Night
— Entertainment Weekly - Oct 25 2016
The Beach at Night
— Publisher's Weekly - Oct 24 2016
‘I am not the face of Elena Ferrante’
— The Times - Oct 22 2016
The Honest Truth: Ferrante's Frantumaglia
— Arcade - Oct 20 2016
7 Books We’re Reading This Fall
— The—M—Dash - Oct 19 2016
The complete review's Review
— Complete Review - Oct 17 2016
My Feverish Ferrante Summer: Three #RivetingReviews of Elena Ferrante’s early novels by Rosie Goldsmith
— European Literature Network - Oct 17 2016
My Feverish Ferrante Summer: Three #RivetingReviews of Elena Ferrante’s early novels by Rosie Goldsmith
— European Literature Newtork - Oct 17 2016
My Feverish Ferrante Summer: Three #RivetingReviews of Elena Ferrante’s early novels by Rosie Goldsmith
— European Literature Network - Oct 16 2016
Why Anonymity Is More Artistically Rewarding Than Fame: Virginia Woolf on Elena Ferrante
— Brain Pickings - Oct 14 2016
Ann Goldstein Wanted (Really, Really Wanted) to Bring Elena Ferrante to America
— Arcade - Oct 14 2016
Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey.
— Booklist - Oct 13 2016
The latest Elena Ferrante controversy: Her children’s book, ‘The Beach at Night’
— The Washington Post - Oct 12 2016
Fabricating Stories by VICTOR XAVIER ZAROUR ZARZAR
— Arcade - Oct 12 2016
Elena Ferrante’s Picture Book Embraces the Dark Side
— The New York Times - Oct 10 2016
Elena Ferrante, Francesca Woodman, And Women Who Yearn To Disappear In Plain Sight
— The Huffintgon Post - Oct 6 2016
45 New Books to Read This Fall
— Vulture - Oct 6 2016
Elena Ferrante’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Goes From Page to Stage
— The New York Times - Sep 1 2016
Running Out of Time? 10 Short Works to Read Before Labor Day.
— Words without Borders - Aug 6 2016
Sister act: female friendship in fiction from Woolf to Ferrante and Zadie Smith
— The Guardian - Jul 25 2016
The subtle art of translating foreign fiction
— The Guardian - Jun 6 2016
Elena Ferrante, "The Story of the Lost Child"
— Once upon a reading - May 22 2016
In search of Elena Ferrante’s Naples
— The Irish Times - May 19 2016
“WRITING IS AN ACT OF PRIDE”: A CONVERSATION WITH ELENA FERRANTE
— The New Yorker - May 13 2016
The Days of Abandonment – Elena Ferrante (2002)
— Heavenali - May 12 2016
Spurn the Translator at Your Own Peril
— The Millions - May 12 2016
Man Booker Shortlist: Translating Elena Ferrante
— BBC - May 11 2016
Man Booker Shortlist: Elena Ferrante On Using A Pseudonym
— BBC - May 10 2016
Translated fiction sells better in the UK than English fiction, research finds
— The Guardian - May 8 2016
Man Booker Shortlist: Elena Ferrante's Naples
— BBC - May 8 2016
Elena Ferrante's Naples
— BBC - Apr 20 2016
Reader's Guide
— The Man Booker Prize - Apr 20 2016
Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector up for Best Translated Book award
— The Guardian - Apr 14 2016
The Man Booker International Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced
— The Man Booker Prize - Apr 14 2016
Ferrante, Pamuk shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize
— The Bookseller - Apr 14 2016
Elena Ferrante makes Man Booker International shortlist
— The Telegraph - Apr 14 2016
'Exhilarating' Man Booker International shortlist spans the world
— The Guardian - Apr 11 2016
2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results
— Independent Publisher - Apr 9 2016
What Elena Ferrante’s writing means to me
— The Literary Sofa - Apr 5 2016
The Story of the Lost Child Interview
— The Man Booker Prize - Apr 4 2016
Pseudonyms, puzzles and privacy
— The Oxford Culture Review - Apr 3 2016
The epic task of bringing the enigmatic Elena Ferrante's books to life
— The Guardian - Mar 22 2016
Best foreign books translated into English
— Culture Whisper - Mar 16 2016
BBC Newsnight
— BBC - Mar 11 2016
My hero: Elena Ferrante by Margaret Drabble
— The Guardian - Mar 8 2016
Elena Ferrante’s insistence on anonymity is an absolute necessity
— The Hindustan Times - Mar 1 2016
March Book Club: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
— The Times - Feb 28 2016
How Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante won us over
— The Telegraph - Feb 26 2016
Jeffrey Archer: 'Elena Ferrante does for Naples what Dickens did for London'
— The Independent - Feb 19 2016
Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'
— The Guardian - Feb 8 2016
Ebook reviews: Discovering new worlds with #womenintranslation
— The Irish Times - Feb 2 2016
Savage Fury: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Room of One’s Own
— Erratic Dialogues - Feb 2 2016
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
— Erratic Dialogues - Jan 30 2016
Katherine Hill on Saving Books, Literary Power, & Ferrante Fever (Part 4)
— Writerly States - Jan 28 2016
108. Some Books I Read in 2015
— Ursula K. Le Guin's Blog - Jan 28 2016
The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels
— The New Yorker - Jan 26 2016
Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle
— Metro Politics - Jan 19 2016
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2015.
— Booklist - Jan 5 2016
The 10 best books of 2015
— BBC - Dec 23 2015
The 10 Best Fiction Books
— Time - Dec 22 2015
Winners and losers: publishers pick the 2015 books they loved, missed and envied
— The Guardian - Dec 21 2015
Freight Staff and Authors Pick Favourite Reads of 2015
— Freight Books - Dec 21 2015
Danielle McLaughlin: ‘I think we need different books at different times’
— The Irish Times - Dec 21 2015
The mystery of our favourite writers
— The Hindu - Dec 18 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
— Oldie - Dec 17 2015
Literary Fiction of the Year by Katy Guest: 'All this to savour – and then the thrill of a new Harper Lee, too'
— The Independent - Dec 17 2015
All booked up for Christmas
— The Daily Mail - Dec 17 2015
Times writers’ top picks of 2015
— The Times - Dec 17 2015
LITERARY HUB’S BEST BOOKS OF 2015
— Literary Hub - Dec 16 2015
Electric Literature’s Best Novels of 2015
— Electric Lit - Dec 16 2015
The Books We Loved in 2015
— The New Yorker - Dec 15 2015
FERRANTE, IN HISTORY
— Public Books - Dec 14 2015
Minutes
— New Republic - Dec 9 2015
Best of the Best-of Lists
— The Wall Street Journal - Dec 9 2015
What’s the Best Book, New or Old, You Read This Year?
— The New York Times's Sunday Book Review - Dec 9 2015
The Best Book I Read This Year
— The Atlantic - Dec 9 2015
NPR Book Concierge: Guide to 2015’s Great Reads.
— NPR Books - Dec 9 2015
A Year in Reading: Matthew Salesses
— The Millions - Dec 8 2015
Best of 2015: Best Fiction Books
— Entropy - Dec 8 2015
Books of the year 2015
— Tiny Camels / Jonathan Gibbs - Dec 7 2015
Fall in love this Christmas with a good book: Something for everyone - our critics select the year’s best novels Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-3344877/Fall-love-Christmas-good-book-critics-select-year-s-best-novels.html#ixzz3td4MBvum Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
— Daily Mail - Dec 7 2015
The books that made my year
— The Pool - Dec 7 2015
Top 10 Fiction Books
— Time - Dec 6 2015
The Best 15 Books of 2015
— Book Culture - Dec 6 2015
The best novels of 2015
— The Guardian - Dec 6 2015
Take your pick of the year’s finest books
— The Sunday Times - Dec 4 2015
Shelf life - Best books of the year
— The Economist - Dec 3 2015
The 10 Best Books of 2015
— The New York Times - Dec 3 2015
Lady Things: Holiday Gift Guide
— Lady Things - Dec 3 2015
The best fiction of 2015
— The Guardian - Dec 2 2015
Amelia: 10 Things I’m Thankful For This Year
— The Frisky - Dec 2 2015
ESSAY: The storyteller: On Elena Ferrante
— Dawn - Dec 2 2015
The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2015
— Buzzfeed - Dec 2 2015
Say Hello to My Brilliant Friend
— Sorry Television - Nov 30 2015
Ferrante, Levi in top 100 New York Times
— Ansa - Nov 30 2015
100 Notable Books of 2015
— The New York Times - Nov 30 2015
Best books of 2015 – part two
— The Guardian - Nov 30 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante tr. Ann Goldstein
— Word by word - Nov 30 2015
Best books of 2015 – part one
— The Guardian - Nov 28 2015
What 50 of our best writers read in 2015 and why
— Herald Scotland - Nov 26 2015
The best translated fiction of 2015
— The Independent - Nov 25 2015
Readers’ Review: “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante
— The Diane Rehm Show - Nov 24 2015
Waterstones prepares for new chapter as bookshop chain returns to profitability
— The Guardian - Nov 24 2015
STUFF I’VE BEEN READING
— The Believer - Nov 24 2015
The 50 Best Independent Press Books of 2015
— Flavorwire - Nov 24 2015
Book Review: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
— The Phraser - Nov 23 2015
Best 100 books for Christmas
— The Telegraph - Nov 20 2015
Friends and Other Enemies
— The Wall Street Journal - Nov 19 2015
Notable fiction books of 2015
— The Washington Post - Nov 18 2015
What are top reads this Christmas? Suffolk book shop owner shares his recommendations
— East Anglian Daily Times - Nov 14 2015
Notes from last night: “On Elena Ferrante: Jhumpa Lahiri & Ann Goldstein in Conversation”
— Author Stalker - Nov 13 2015
Waterstones Book Of The Year Shortlist 2015
— Waterstones - Nov 13 2015
Ferrante Fever
— The Hindu - Nov 10 2015
Ferrante's Fourth Dazzles
— The Harvard Crimson - Nov 5 2015
I Love Dick is one of the most important books about being a woman – no wonder it’s being dismissed
— The Independent - Nov 3 2015
The Impersonal Is Political
— Slate - Nov 3 2015
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
— James Reads Books - Nov 3 2015
The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante (2015) trans. Ann Goldstein
— Heavenali - Nov 3 2015
The Guardian view on the Baileys women’s prize for fiction – still needed, 20 years on
— The Guardian - Nov 2 2015
Best Books of 2015
— Publisher's Weekly - Oct 30 2015
Elena Ferrante Names the Devil and Slays the Minotaur
— The Millions - Oct 26 2015
The 15 Top New Books to Read for Fall 2015
— Patch of Earth - Oct 22 2015
The Story of The Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
— Lizzy’s Literary Life - Oct 22 2015
Food in books: the pistachio cream puffs in Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend
— The Guardian - Oct 21 2015
4x4th Estate: Lost In A Good Translation
— 4th Estate - Oct 21 2015
Staff picks: year’s best literary fiction
— The Guardian - Oct 21 2015
Indie Success Story
— Shelf-Awareness - Oct 19 2015
Something for the Week – Elena Ferrante
— Blackwell's - Oct 3 2015
A book that rattles like a pressure-cooker with anger, outrage, frustration and spleen
— The Spectator - Oct 3 2015
Searching Naples for Elena Ferrante
— The Daily Beast - Oct 2 2015
We don’t know Elena Ferrante – and that’s exactly why her success is so wonderful
— The Guardian - Sep 30 2015
"The Story Of The Lost Child" by Elena Ferrante
— RTE - Sep 29 2015
The Rites of Women
— The Junket - Sep 28 2015
"Ferrante’s success has changed the perception of Europa Editions. My job now is to really push the whole list so that people who come to us by Ferrante stay with us."
— The Bookseller - Sep 28 2015
"It’s raw and brilliant, with a light that shines unblinking on its characters.”
— The Phraser - Sep 28 2015
"Ferrante’s attention to the female body has been one of the great pleasures of her Neopolitan series..."
— New Republic - Sep 22 2015
“When the novel ends, it abruptly and dazzlingly reveals exactly how much change has accumulated over each successive round, leaving its readers to ask the same question as its narrator: How could we have possibly gone so far?”
— The Harvard Crimson - Sep 21 2015
"For Ferrante, the ability to exercise our own choices is of paramount importance and one that she takes very seriously."
— Scroll.in - Sep 21 2015
"The novel examines friendship, motherhood, politics, class conflict, and the project of writing..."
— The New Yorker - Sep 20 2015
"Are Ferrante’s books autobiographical, as everyone speculates? Yes, perhaps: we all have difficult friendships; but these also seem to be about different aspects of the same person."
— Mirabile Dictu - Sep 20 2015
“It takes a transcendent imagination to write a life that reads as if it actually happened, in our own world, and not too long ago. We're lucky to have one such imagination working now, that of Italian novelist Elena Ferrante.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer - Sep 20 2015
“It is the first work worthy of the Nobel prize to have come out of Italy for many decades.”
— The Observer - Sep 20 2015
"Ferrante’s books are bestsellers, sure, but they’re no 50 Shades of Grey. They are those unicorn commercial successes with profound literary merit."
— Quartz - Sep 19 2015
"Ferrante has written a book that feels as rich and layered as life itself."
— The Boston Globe - Sep 19 2015
Ann Goldstein discusses the Neapolitan novels with Sarah Kanowski on Australian radio.
— abc - Sep 19 2015
"The prose isn't pretty or elegant: the English translation (by Ann Goldstein) is terrifically simple and understated . . . But it's the power of the emotions bleeding through the words that grips you."
— The Idle Woman - Sep 19 2015
"The book series is a eulogy to ordinary peoples` lives, their differing aspirations and their desires to follow their instincts…even when these are questionable."
— Samsinclair Blog - Sep 17 2015
Aleksandar Hemon says “Most recently I’ve been enjoying Elena Ferrante, and not enjoying Knausgaard, but I spend a lot of time reading books in translation.”
— English Pen - Sep 17 2015
"The dark heart of friendship has rarely been anatomised in more pitiless detail."
— Evening Standard - Sep 17 2015
James Franco instagrammed his recent Ferrante fever affliction. Teenage girls the world over rush out to buy MY BRILLIANT FRIEND.
— James Franco on instagram - Sep 16 2015
Guy Maddin refers to Ferrante as “the most exciting author he’s encountered in decades”.
— CBC Books - Sep 16 2015
"As in the rest of the series, Ferrante’s writing is spare, fierce, and meticulously detailed; as John Waters once quipped on Vine, she could be “the best angry woman writer ever”."
— The Georgia Straight - Sep 15 2015
“Ferrante’s astute political analysis of Italy’s many political and economic earthquakes from the 1950s to the present gives her novels a weight and significance beyond fiction.”
— European Literature Network - Sep 15 2015
Five Books Making the News This Week
— The Lit Hub - Sep 15 2015
"Ferrante’s voice is very much her own, but its force is communal. Perhaps her quartet should be seen as one of the first great works of post-authorial literature.”
— The Atlantic - Sep 14 2015
ReadingGroupGuides.com’s September, “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?”: MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is the prize
— ReadingGroupGuides.com - Sep 14 2015
"Ferrante's Naples Quartet is anything but theater. It is the first genuine literary classic of the 21st century."
— The Huffington Post - Sep 14 2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is #21 on the Nielsen list.
— Nielsen list - Sep 13 2015
"Ferrante is able to evoke a world that [. . .] is both ‘fresh’ and ‘alive’, full of mystery and beauty, and one that deserves to be read and re-read."
— Bookish Ramblings - Sep 13 2015
LOST CHILD is #7 on the Indie Bestseller List: Trade Paperback Nonfiction for the week ending September 13, 2015.
— Indie Bestseller - Sep 13 2015
“I don’t think I’ve read a more intelligent and imaginative work about contemporary women’s lives, nor one that articulates so bravely the difficulties inherent in such an enterprise.”
— In These Times - Sep 12 2015
"Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Suggestions"
— The Boston Globe - Sep 12 2015
"A bit of welcome relief from the testosterone-fuelled big beastery came in the form of The Story of the Lost Child, the final instalment of Elena Ferrante’s wildly popular quartet of Neapolitan novels."
— The Guardian - Sep 12 2015
"Still, it is worth battling through all four volumes of this strenuous saga to encounter Lila, and to observe a character evolving and enduring within a world she has chosen."
— The Irish Times - Sep 12 2015
"The emotional devastation is so intimately rendered that at times, as I read, I couldn’t breathe."
— The Independent (UK) - Sep 12 2015
"... the Italian writer is scathing about persistent speculation that she is in fact a well-known male writer (or, given the magnitude of her success, a cabal of well-known male writers)."
— The Australian - Sep 11 2015
"A shock of recognition rocked me when I read page 18. The heroine, Elena, who is angry and jealous of her best friend, Lila, destroys a box of eight notebooks Lila entrusted her with so her husband would not find them."
— Mirabile Dictu - Sep 11 2015
"There are tons of lessons women can learn from Ferrante's pages — and here are just seven of 'em:"
— Bustle - Sep 11 2015
"Ferrante deserves credit for setting her own terms and insisting that the focus remain on her work. Jonathan Franzen should be so lucky."
— NY Times - Sep 10 2015
Bustle: 6 Lessons On Female Friendship That I Learned As A Man, Straight From Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
— Bustle - Sep 10 2015
Maureen Corrigan calls THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD "spectacular" and reminds us that, in order to experience the "perfect devastation" of this finale, it's best to start from the very beginning.
— NPR - Sep 10 2015
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Hollywood Reporter's Fall Book Preview - Sep 10 2015
"Rather than mourning the loss of Ferrante’s exquisite Neapolitan novels, I marvel at achievement in bringing them to life. And the coda at the end of the epic tale of Lila and Elena has stayed with me for days."
— The Artery - Sep 10 2015
Margaret Drabble calls LOST CHILD "a triumphant, satisfying, baffling and unsettling conclusion."
— New Statesman - Sep 9 2015
Brooklyn Magazine calls LOST CHILD “The Best Book to Weep to on the Subway.”
— Brooklyn Magazine - Sep 9 2015
"Romantic and family saga, a Bildungsroman, a portrait of a society, the series is also not quite any of these things."
— The Times Literary Supplement - Sep 9 2015
"Women are made into universal heroes, without an ounce of pity, shame or excuse."
— Macleans - Sep 8 2015
"The complete series, which runs now to well over 1,500 pages, is reminiscent of the vast novel of the 19th century..."
— Book Reporter - Sep 7 2015
'Ferrante Fever' Exists for a Reason
— Broadly - Sep 7 2015
"Working Title: The Lost Daughter"
— Asymptote - Sep 7 2015
Podcast
— The Guardian - Sep 7 2015
"The only book ever to make me shout out loud at a revelation in the story."
— The Guardian - Sep 6 2015
"Successfully Absent: Elena Ferrante’s Italian Books"
— The Conversation (Australia) - Sep 6 2015
"A Foreign Affair: Best new world fiction translations."
— Daily Express - Sep 5 2015
"New in Paper"
— Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) - Sep 5 2015
"To read Ferrante is to be immersed in an entire world, subject to its violence and passions, its hopes and frustrations; readers will likely find it difficult to close The Story of the Lost Child for the last time, to consign that world to memo"
— The Star - Sep 4 2015
"Ferrante's novels are immersive, each and all together a world, one sliding into the next as characters and events mirror one another."
— WA Today (Australia) - Sep 4 2015
Melanie Mitchell recommends THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— The News - Sep 4 2015
"In her inimitable style (expertly rendered, as always, by translator Ann Goldstein), Ferrante examines feminine identity within and without the context of marriage, motherhood, and vocation."
— Entertainment Weekly - Sep 3 2015
"15 Books to Read This Fall"
— Wall Street Journal - Sep 3 2015
"... THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD is the fourth and final one of her magnificent Neapolitan quartet, a sequence which now seems to me, at least within all that I've read, to be the greatest achievement in fiction of the post-war era."
— Chicago Tribune - Sep 3 2015
Kirsty Lang discusses Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan series on BBC Radio’s feature “Front Row.”
— BBC - Sep 3 2015
"Ms. Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet is utterly distinctive, immersing us not just in a time and place, but deep within the psychological consciousness of its narrator."
— The New York Times - Sep 3 2015
"Like Anna Karenina, Lila and Elena are volatile, full of desire and rage. They too break domestic conventions, but it thrills me that instead of killing them off, Ferrante allows them, in all their chaos and pain, to thrive."
— Los Angeles Times - Sep 3 2015
What to do this weekend?
— New York Times - Sep 3 2015
"A portrait of the dynamic of a friendship has mutated into a weightier, more uncanny exploration of the antipathy of love, of our compulsion to create one another, over and over again."
— The Guardian - Sep 3 2015
"The truth is that even the publishing industry and the media are convinced of this commonplace; both tend to shut women who write away in a literary gynaeceum."
— The Pool - Sep 3 2015
Aaron Brady on The Lit Hub: "Her work is reminiscent of a Neapolitan theatrical tradition called sceneggiata, a kind of over-the-top musical melodrama about honour, betrayal and crime…"
— The Lit Hub - Sep 3 2015
"Her subtle and sensuous depiction of Lenu’s and Lila’s world leads to a totally immersive reading experience – you feel the street dust on your face, the sand between your toes, you can smell the stench of sausage meat."
— OpenDemocracy.net - Sep 3 2015
"Ferrante’s masterworks take us close enough to see not just the colour, but the filth and mud as well."
— The National - Sep 3 2015
"3 Big Reasons The Neapolitan Novels Are The Greatest Modern Series"
— Bustle - Sep 3 2015
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD tops the list of “Editors’ Choice” Books in the September 6 issue of the New York Times Book Review.
— New York Times Book Review - Sep 2 2015
"Has any fiction in the past ten years had a bigger impact?"
— Vogue.com - Sep 2 2015
"The books are full of blood – menstrual as well as that spilled through violence – and the women are as awful to each other as the men are to them..."
— Tiny Camels - Sep 2 2015
"This was a party, in the tradition established by the Harry Potter series, for books whose fan bases have become ravenous."
— The New Yorker - Sep 2 2015
"Ferrante challenges our ideas about the act of writing itself, so that we are left wondering if a writer’s work always and inevitably contains traces of the words and stories of others that came before it."
— The Atlantic - Sep 2 2015
"Ferrante, the Classics scholar, has written a Greek tragedy with Lila as its heroine."
— Los Angeles Review of Books - Sep 2 2015
"The prose is spare, emotionally resonant — and completely addictive."
— New York Post - Sep 2 2015
"The city itself is a character in all her novels, including the popular four-book series that begins with My Brilliant Friend, about best friends growing up in the 1950s, and ends with The Story of the Lost Child, released in English this week."
— CityLab - Sep 2 2015
"Ferrante added that when a woman’s writing falls outside the categories that have been assigned to women, particularly when there is no author photo of a woman provided, then the immediate jump to the writer’s identity being male is made."
— The Guardian - Sep 2 2015
"It’s a satisfying conclusion to Ferrante’s modern masterpiece."
— Bustle’s 13 of Fall’s Best Books to Read All Season - Sep 2 2015
Women’s Voices for Change’s “Wednesday five”: #1 THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Women’s Voices for Change - Sep 2 2015
"12 Of The Most Feminist Moments In Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels"
— Bustle - Sep 2 2015
"The fourth and final installment wraps up the tale of friendship, class struggle, political upheaval and the search for identity that has hooked so many readers over the four years since the first volume was published in Italy."
— Bustle - Sep 1 2015
Waterstones' latest Book Club titles revealed
— The Bookseller - Sep 1 2015
"Reading Ferrante is like holding one of those hearts, without ever understanding what brought it to life in the first place."
— Open Letters Monthly - Sep 1 2015
"21 Must-Read Fall Books"
— Kirkus - Sep 1 2015
"It’s the bristling, uncompromising, messy humanity of Ferrante’s characters that make them so vivid."
— The Barnes and Noble Review - Sep 1 2015
"The symbolic open-endedness of The Story of The Lost Child makes the series into something of a circle, a cycle, rather than a linear tale. It’s a stunning feat to contemplate, while also being riveting to read.”
— Flavorwire - Sep 1 2015
A Love Letter To Elena Ferrante, Whoever She May Be: "Anonymity is a powerful thing in the age of the personal brand."
— The Huffington Post - Sep 1 2015
"If you only read four books this year, then make it these."
— The Stylist's Best New Books of September - Sep 1 2015
"It is the exploration of the women’s mental underworld that makes the book so singular an achievement in feminist literature; indeed, in all literature."
— The New Yorker - Sep 1 2015
"5 Reasons To Love Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels With All Your Feminist Heart"
— Bust - Sep 1 2015
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Vol.1 Brooklyn’s September 2015 Books Preview - Sep 1 2015
17 Of September 2015's Best Books: #1 THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Bustle - Sep 1 2015
"Unlike most books of a breathtaking nature, these are beautifully wrought, with layered and intricate characters acting in extreme, but believable ways."
— Heavy Feather Review - Sep 1 2015
"Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels are astonishing modern classics"
— Vox - Sep 1 2015
Falvorwire's 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015: THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Flavorwire - Sep 1 2015
Lit Hub's Five Books Making News This Week: THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— The Lit Hub - Sep 1 2015
"But that’s exactly how this series should end: not with the sudden realization of who we can be, but with the awful truth of who we are."
— Fusion - Sep 1 2015
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD featured on Amazon's Best Books of the Month!
— Amazon's Best Books of the Month - Aug 31 2015
"A Writer Who Makes Her Voice Heard Around the World: Elena Ferrante’s brilliant, angry, honest series of novels"
— Kirkus - Aug 31 2015
"Insightful examination and mini history of Naples, modern Italian history and politics, feminism, and class issues."
— NY Journal of Books - Aug 31 2015
"It's a matter-of-fact, serious, rigorously intelligent, deeply honest voice that pushes until it understands the truth behind what happens."
— RALPH Mag - Aug 31 2015
"For my mom and me—who, like all mothers and daughters, sometimes have a difficult relationship—the novels have given us a way to stay in closer touch and a subject to return to and discuss."
— Slate - Aug 31 2015
"Part of the rich flavor of these books comes from Ferrante’s skillful blending of the familiar motifs of commercial fiction with an elevated style and a refusal to stoop to sentimental reassurances and easily likable characters."
— Slate - Aug 31 2015
"But with work this unusual and brilliant, there is no way to stop us from focusing on so prodigiously gifted a storyteller."
— Newsday - Aug 31 2015
"But while the relationship between protagonists Elena and Lila is the story’s heart, there’s another character exerting a strong influence on their lives: the city of Naples, which is portrayed in gritty detail throughout the novels."
— TIME - Aug 31 2015
"As a whole the Neapolitan Novels are a wonderful achievement, and the fourth book provides a fitting end to a enthralling series."
— Tony's Reading List - Aug 30 2015
Elena Ferrante Speaks: “The Books are Enough”
— Publishing Perspectives - Aug 29 2015
"Yet it is Ms Ferrante’s ability to serve up scorching emotional truth that gives the books their raw power."
— The Economist - Aug 28 2015
"To imbue fiction with the undiluted energy of life — to make of it not just words upon a page but a visceral force — is the greatest artistic achievement, worth more than any pretty sentences..."
— The Financial Times - Aug 28 2015
"This stunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Ferrante's masterpiece and guarantees that this reclusive author will remain far from obscure for years to come."
— Publishers Weekly - Aug 28 2015
Brow Beat Slate's Culture Blog: "Dressing a Refined Story With a Touch of Vulgarity": An Interview With Elena Ferrante’s Art Director
— Slate - Aug 28 2015
"These are Elena Ferrante's women trapped in a Lars von Trier film."
— New Republic - Aug 28 2015
"These ferocious and necessary novels offer so many varieties of pleasure: They are political, intellectual and emotionally gripping at the same time. They draw a portrait of Western society in blood."
— Globe and Mail - Aug 28 2015
"This is Ferrante at the height of her brilliance."
— Vanity Fair - Aug 27 2015
BBC Ten Books to Read in September: "This concluding volume, translated into English by Ann Goldstein, proves, once again, as Ferrante puts it: “Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps.”"
— BBC - Aug 27 2015
"Learning from the multivolume sagaists who have preceded her, she shows much skill in writing those enormous histories into this narrative about two grown women choosing the paths their adult lives should take."
— SFGate - Aug 27 2015
Off the Shelf’s 11 Binge-Worthy Literary Series: THE NEAPOLITAN NOVELS
— Off the Shelf - Aug 27 2015
"[...] it is in the passages when Ferrante explores the liminal states of Lila’s consciousness that the writing transcends itself."
— The Independent (UK) - Aug 27 2015
"A Brief Guide to Elena Ferrante with Joanna Walsh" Vlog
— London Review Bookshop - Aug 27 2015
Vulture's 46 Books to Read this Fall: #2 THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Vulture - Aug 26 2015
"With her new novel, “The Story of the Lost Child,” Ferrante has written what I’d call a “city book,” a knowing and complex tale that encompasses an entire metropolis."
— The Washington Post - Aug 26 2015
"With this shift into a psychological paradigm, Ferrante implies much about the stubbornly cyclical nature of female evolution."
— The New York Times - Aug 25 2015
"Ferrante had brought the story, the lives she was excavating, to a conclusion that, while it does not answer all the questions, or even many of them, feels the way life feels."
— Foyles - Aug 24 2015
"As Ferrante suggests, the book should surely be enough, though that is sadly not the reality for many pressured to deliver a performance after they have delivered their novel."
— The Independent - Aug 24 2015
Amazon’s Fall Books Preview: Editors Fall Favorites: #5 THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Amazon’s Fall Books Preview - Aug 23 2015
22 Essential Women Writers to Read in Translation: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
— Flavorwire - Aug 22 2015
"The Story of the Lost Child does not offer a comfortable end to the series, but it confirms Ferrante – once again – as one of contemporary fiction’s most compelling voices.”
— The Telegraph - Aug 21 2015
Previously on the Neapolitan Novels: Your Study Guide to Elena Ferrante
— Electric Lit - Aug 21 2015
"Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Story Of The Lost Child’ Is Coming, So Here’s What You Need To Remember Before You Start The Fourth Book"
— Bustle: - Aug 20 2015
"What Are Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels About? Hint: It's Not Ice Cream"
— Bustle - Aug 19 2015
Amazon's 20 favorite fall book picks
— CNN - Aug 19 2015
"#FerranteFever Is Sweeping Social Media! Here's How To Enter The 'Story Of The Lost Child' Contest"
— Bustle - Aug 14 2015
"When is Elena Ferrante’s New Book Coming Out?"
— Bustle - Aug 14 2015
"The concluding novel of the Neapolitan quartet perfectly completes the saga of two women's 66-year friendship in a rough neighborhood of Naples."
— Shelf Awareness - Aug 13 2015
Evening Standard Magazine’s list "#longreads: the supersized books of summer 2015."
— Evening Standard Magazine - Aug 13 2015
10 Great Books To Read Now Based On Your Favorite Titles As A Kid (That, OK, You Still Love Now, Too): MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
— Bustle - Aug 11 2015
"More than that, however, the letter is an affirmation to those of us torn between publishing and our privacy, showing us that having our careers doesn't necessitate the end of our lives as private citizens."
— Bustle - Aug 11 2015
30 blockbuster novels to look out for this fall: THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Entertainment Weekly - Aug 11 2015
John Waters, Billy Connolly, Marina Endicott on their Summer Reads: John Waters picks THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD - Aug 10 2015
"... it’s refreshing to see a writer committed to dodging the bandwagon at every turn."
— Electric Lit - Aug 7 2015
“It's difficult for me to exaggerate how moving, how beautiful and how thought-provoking these novels are, how piercing Ferrante's insight is.
— Material Witness - Aug 6 2015
Philippa Gregory in The Daily Mail: Currently reading THE STORY OF A NEW NAME
— The Daily Mail - Aug 3 2015
"Ferrante’s writing is rich, honest and addictive."
— Scout Magazine - Aug 1 2015
15 Books You Should Read Before the End of Summer
— Fader - Aug 1 2015
Reading Groups for Everyone Staff Picks: THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD - Aug 1 2015
"They’ve got love, life, politics, friendship, a window into an unknown world and fantastic writing – they are the best thing I’ve read in years.”
— The Sunday TImes - Aug 1 2015
"Not only do they provide an intimately written description of a female friendship, clear as life, but together they form a female Künstlerroman, a woman’s story of coming of age as an artist in a male-dominated world..."
— How We Spend Our Days - Aug 1 2015
London Review of Books Bookshop's Author of the Month: Elena Ferrante
— London Review of Books - Jul 31 2015
The Story of a New Name: Katherine, July 31
— Post45 - Jul 31 2015
"Ferrante’s dedication to the working class is deeply satisfying. No matter how much delight you take in Elena’s cultural and intellectual strides, those figures from her childhood always take the spotlight."
— Turnaround Publisher Services - Jul 30 2015
The Story of A New Name: Merve, July 30: "If My Brilliant Friend gave us a community of two, Lila and Lenù, brought together by a shared commitment to literary education, in The Story of a New Name that community has broadened."
— Post45 - Jul 30 2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is #3 on the London Review of Books list of weekly bestsellers.
— London Review of Books - Jul 30 2015
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD was included in Publishers Weekly list of “The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2015.”
— Publishers Weekly - Jul 30 2015
Buzzfeed's "35 Books You Should Read this Summer": THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
— Buzzfeed - Jul 30 2015
MBF is at #1 in the Bookseller’s Small Publishers Top 20 chart - 7/27/15
— Bookseller’s Small Publishers - Jul 29 2015
The Independent’s list of alternative Man Booker Longlist titles: THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY
— The Independent - Jul 27 2015
MBF is also #5 on the Original Fiction Top 20 and at #9 on the Heatseekers Top 20. 7/27/15 - Jul 27 2015
Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels featured as recommended books in translation in the article, “Books: Get lost in translation on exotic holidays in the sun” in The Independent.
— The Independent - Jul 27 2015
THE LOST DAUGHTER recommended by Alice Sebold on the new book app Alexi. - Jul 24 2015
"What I found really interesting was the aspects of the competition verses the companionship of the girls ... and how each girl tries to keep both dynamics going yet also trying to figure out their futures..."
— Savidge Reads - Jul 17 2015
THE STORY OF A NEW NAME included in the list of “Summer Reading List-Books for the Beach”
— Material Witness - Jul 15 2015
"Ferrante reads like a brilliant American HBO tv series - multi layered, enticing, sexy, threatening, exciting - you don't have to wait for the next week's episode, it's there right in front of you on paper."
— Daunt Books - Jul 13 2015
"The most incredible thing about Ferrante’s writing is that it operates on two levels; that is, she is writing the story of a character who is writing a story."
— Raging Biblioholism - Jul 12 2015
"Ferrante’s writing style, which is candid, intimate and seems almost effortless."
— Bookish Ramblings - Jul 11 2015
The Guardian's Best Holiday Reads
— The Guardian - Jul 8 2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND moves up to no.7 on this week’s NAIBA Indie Bestseller List.
— NAIBA Indie Bestseller List - Jul 7 2015
"These stories save us from the tired spectacle of women fighting over some man or fighting to redeem him."
— The Washington Post - Jul 6 2015
"It’s a juicy novel, it’s a novel to make you stay up too late, it’s a complex novel, and it isn’t easy to read—though it certainly is readable."
— Asymptote - Jul 6 2015
Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2015 Book Preview
— The Millions - Jul 5 2015
Best reads on the beach: MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
— The Sunday Times - Jul 4 2015
"... the book focuses on the small, everyday events of Elena and Lila’s lives to tell a much more expansive story about their friendship and rivalry."
— A Little Blog of Books - Jun 30 2015
"Through her characters and their situations, Ferrante clearly and evocatively presents the choices, problems and possibilities for young girls and women."
— L.A. Public Library - Jun 30 2015
"This idea of a life stolen by the demands of motherhood often haunts the minds of Ferrante’s characters."
— Tweed Magazine - Jun 30 2015
Blackwell Bookstore’s Current Top Ten Chart: MY BRILLIANT FRIEND - Jun 29 2015
"Forensically observed, truthful, rich and rewarding, this is an unforgettable reading experience. Brava also to Ann Goldstein, the translator.”
— The Daily Mail - Jun 29 2015
Reading Room’s 6 Great Italian Authors to Discover: "My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime."
— Reading Room - Jun 29 2015
THE STORY OF A NEW NAME is number 7 on the list of top-selling books at Battenkill Books, Cambridge during the week of June 28th - Jun 29 2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is number 6 on the list of top-selling books at Battenkill Books, Cambridge during the week of June 28th - Jun 29 2015
Jennifer Morrison recommends: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante - Jun 23 2015
"Ferrante has created 2 of the most dynamic & intelligent female protagonists of our (or maybe any) time."
— The Point Mag - Jun 23 2015
"It's a Naples whodunnit: novelist hotly tipped to win Italy’s Strega prize has kept her identity a secret for more than 20 years to preserve her ‘flesh and blood’"
— The Guardian - Jun 23 2015
Sybil Steinberg of Publishers Weekly “June 2015” list: The Neapolitan Novels
— Publishers Weekly - Jun 22 2015
My Brilliant Friend: Jill, June 22: "”In this novel, female friendship takes center stage, as a social relation equally mysterious, difficult, and precarious as the bonds we most often, most exclusively, attribute to romantic love.” - Jun 22 2015
"Ferrante has captured the intensity of childhood friendships – their all-consuming nature, the passions and the near romantic obsession – brilliantly."
— The Guardian - Jun 22 2015
Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore’s Summer Reads 2015 Jason's Picks: MY BRILLIANT FRIEND - Jun 19 2015
25 Great Literary Series to Replace Your TV Habit This Summer: The Neapolitan Novela - Jun 18 2015
"Ferrante’s writing is crisp and precise, evoking the intensity of childhood and adolescence but without ever being subsumed by them. "
— GoodbyeToAllThis - Jun 16 2015
THE STORY OF A NEW NAME selected by the International Women’s Group Book Club title for the month of 6/15.
— International Women’s Group Book Club - Jun 16 2015
"Elena Ferrante – whose agile prose has found her not a few (well-deserved) admirers in our recent Summer Books feature – Italian literature has been having a rather tough time of it in recent years..."
— The Times Literary Supplement - Jun 12 2015
The Independent’s Recommended Summer Reading: "The writing is fearless, immersive, recounts frankly all human experience, emphatically that which seems unsayable."
— The Independent - Jun 10 2015
30 Books You Need to Read Before You Turn 30: "This novel not only brings to life the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, but also the stubborn nature of fate."
— HuffPost Arts & Culture - Jun 8 2015
Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend — Discovering the sociability, the congeniality of NAPLES - Jun 8 2015
An Interview with Elena Ferrante: "Whenever a part of you emerges that’s not consistent with some feminine ideal, it makes everyone nervous, and you’re supposed to get rid of it in a hurry."
— The Paris Review - Jun 8 2015
Joseph Luzzi’s “The Luzzi List”: “her unique prose, humming with intelligence, reminded me of some the very greats in the nation’s history."
— The Luzzi List - Jun 7 2015
"6 Unsung Novels You Should Read this Summer" by Suzanne McGee
— The Fiscal Times - Jun 4 2015
"Follow Ferrante’s tale to learn that this is what women, not only as women but as people, are."
— Harvard Review Online - Jun 4 2015
"The novel is marked by deft narrative pacing, a controlled balance of lyricism, biting sarcasm, and devastating cliffhangers throughout."
— Harvard Review Online - Jun 4 2015
"The Power of Female Friendship"
— The Lit Hub - Jun 4 2015
THE STORY OF A NEW NAME is no.5 on Turnaround Publisher Services May bestseller list.
— Turnaround Publisher Services - Jun 4 2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is no.1 on Turnaround Publisher Services May bestseller list!
— Turnaround Publisher Services - Jun 3 2015
"The enigmatic Ferrante..has created a mythic portrait of a female friendship."
— Kirkus Starred Review - Jun 3 2015
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND featured first on Nick Moran’s “The Millions Top 10: May 2015” list on The Millions.
— The Millions - Jun 2 2015
"This is a novel about humanity, about growing up in a rapidly-changing world, about dissatisfaction with one’s station in life."
— Turnaround Publisher Services - Jun 1 2015
"The mystery seems to be working for her—though it’s earned her some scorn from the press—and she represents a particular fantasy: that of being able to produce one’s work entirely in peace."
— Andrea Dunlop’s blog - May 31 2015
"The Lost Daughter asks many questions about motherhood but does not provide easy answers; in fact, it leaves us certain there are none."
— 1streading - May 28 2015
"This stunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Ferrante's masterpiece and guarantees that this reclusive author will remain far from obscure for years to come."
— Publisher's Weekly Starred Review - May 25 2015
"Ferrante’s writing is reminiscent of the great Russian novelists."
— Cannoball Read 7 - May 24 2015
"As with My Brilliant Friend, this second novel ends on something of a cliffhanger"
— David's Book World - May 17 2015
"It feels real, not simply another mass-produced novel using the same old techniques to achieve predictable effects."
— Merle Bookwrites - May 16 2015
"With Friends Like These, Who Needs (the word) Frenemies?"
— Book Riot - May 13 2015
One of Lit Hub's Five Intense Books for Mother's Day
— The Lit Hub - May 10 2015
"Questions of education and the aspirations of leaving behind the place you come from, are juxtaposed with the fates of those who never stray far beyond the street they were born."
— Heavenali - May 7 2015
"Both Szabo and Ferrante have created magnificent, outsize portraits of women to which their writer-narrators are destined to miserably compare themselves."
— The Rumpus - Apr 30 2015
"Ferrante’s remarkable achievement so far is to combine the 'large, loose, baggy monster' mode of novel and feminist polemic, without killing the appeal of the first or the force of the second."
— New Humanist - Apr 29 2015
WHY THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY should win the Best Translated Book Award
— Three Percent - Apr 28 2015
Taking off the mask: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels: In these compelling books, the Italian writer - whose real identity is hidden - combines the novel with feminist polemic.
— New Humanist - Apr 25 2015
Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard are writing true life in fiction: "Together they weigh two kilograms, stand as high as a hedge and are so good they make other writers sigh heavily and wonder about another line of work."
— The Star - Apr 24 2015
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante is #1 in Norway! - Apr 21 2015
"Neapolitan Novels on List of 7 Books About Friendship"
— Bustle - Apr 21 2015
"Two Elena Ferrante Books Are Coming This Fall, Sound the Alarm!"
— Bustle - Apr 21 2015
"What is Ferrante Fever?"
— Turnaround Publisher Services - Apr 21 2015
A Discussion of Politics in Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay in The Point Magazine
— The Point Magazine - Apr 20 2015
"At the core of the Neapolitan Novels is an exploration of the vibrant, competitive, demanding friendship between Elena and Lila."
— Fairfield Books On Station - Apr 19 2015
"This is a novel of friendship and discovery, a coming of age novel in which two girls grow up to young womanhood with an ever gradually expanding realisation of their potentialities."
— Heavenali - Apr 17 2015
"There is a savage honesty to the work of Elena Ferrante that is both unsettling and comforting at once."
— Irish Times - Apr 15 2015
Elena Ferrante versus Italy: "How the novelist's global success has rattled Italy's stale, male establishment"
— Little Atoms - Apr 15 2015
Elena Ferrante versus Italy: How the novelist's global success has rattled Italy's stale, male establishment
— Little Atoms - Apr 11 2015
Top Ten Women's Books in Translation
— Litro Magazine - Apr 7 2015
"My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante – A Unique Friendship Blossoms in 1950s Italy
— Food for Bookworms - Apr 7 2015
Flavorwire on the BTBA 2015: "It's Ferrante's for the taking."
— Flavorwire - Mar 16 2015
Namara Smith's Review of The Neapolitan Novels on Bookforum - Mar 10 2015
Flavorwire: "Ferrante...made me take myself and my complex feelings about my many years of forgotten and enduring friendships seriously...I can't think of a greater feminist achievement for a piece of literature." - Feb 20 2015
BookRiot: "If #ferrantefever is any indication, the Neopolitan novels are gripping and impossible to put down." - Jan 31 2015
The Australian: Being Female in the Man's World of Naples - Jan 14 2015
Slate's Audio Book Club Discusses My Brilliant Friend - Dec 26 2014
Vogue: The Ten Best Books of 2014 - Dec 24 2014
San Francisco Chronicle: Top Books of 2014 - Dec 22 2014
The Millions: A Year in Reading, Charles Finch - Dec 15 2014
Words Without Borders: The Neopolitan Novels on the Holiday Reading List 2014 - Dec 15 2014
The Wall Street Journal: Best Books of 2014 - Dec 7 2014
The Daily Beast: The Best Fiction of 2014 - Dec 6 2014
The Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2014 - Dec 4 2014
Slate: Top Ten Books of 2014 - Dec 3 2014
NPR: Best Books of 2014 - Dec 2 2014
The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2014 - Dec 2 2014
Slate: Best Books 2014, "some of the richest, loveliest prose I’ve read in many years" - Dec 2 2014
Next City: 10 Great Novels Every Urbanist Should Read - Dec 2 2014
The New York Review of Books: Italy's Great, Mysterious Storyteller - Nov 25 2014
Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 - Nov 25 2014
#7 on Flavorwire's 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014 - Nov 21 2014
The Globe and Mail: The Best Books of 2014 - Nov 19 2014
The New Statesman: Books of the Year List - Nov 10 2014
Everyday eBook: ebook of the day - Nov 8 2014
The Sydney Morning Herald: "the Neapolitan series stands as a testament to the ability of great literature to challenge, flummox, enrage and excite as it entertains." - Oct 28 2014
#9 on The L.A. Times Bestseller List - Oct 24 2014
The New York Times: In an article on friendship, Ferrante's Neapolitan novels cited as "the most powerful and nuanced view of female friendship ever written" - Oct 23 2014
The Huffington Post: Everyone is Talking About Ferrante - Oct 16 2014
MobyLives: "More than in her books, Ferrante’s strength lies in her not being here, her huge distance from everything." - Oct 15 2014
#7 on NAIBA Indie Bestseller List - Oct 15 2014
The Guardian: "Ferrante’s strength lies in her not being here, her huge distance from everything." - Oct 10 2014
The New Republic: "This is a fairytale—for readers." - Oct 7 2014
Shiny New Books: "I have caught #ferrantefever." - Oct 5 2014
The Independent: "Tolstoyan in its sweep and ambition." - Oct 3 2014
O Magazine: "These novels are thrilling." - Oct 3 2014
People Magazine - Oct 1 2014
The Times Literary Supplement: "Ferrante depicts the pains of uncertainty but also its potential." - Oct 1 2014
Reader's Digest: 10 Great Books from Small Presses - Oct 1 2014
O Magazine names Those Who Leave as the Book of the Week - Sep 30 2014
New York Magazine: "A female writer who describes the female experience so intimately and so vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the writer personally." - Sep 30 2014
Ann Goldstein and D.T. Max discuss Elena Ferrante on New Yorker podcast - Sep 28 2014
#16 on the New York Times Bestseller List - Sep 26 2014
The Globe and Mail: "I hope that Elena Ferrante manages to stay hidden forever. Books like Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay are more than enough." - Sep 26 2014
Financial Times: An Interview With Elena Ferrante - Sep 25 2014
Barnes & Noble Review: "No fiction writer has made it more necessary to think about the performative aspect of being a woman than Elena Ferrante." - Sep 24 2014
MBF and Those Who Leave are #9 and #10 on the NAIBA bestseller list - Sep 24 2014
The Artery: "Ferrante gives voice to emotions and experiences few writers articulate." - Sep 19 2014
The Hollywood Reporter: Those Who Leave named one of Fall's Buzziest Books - Sep 19 2014
The Boston Globe: "Reading Ferrante is an extraordinary experience." - Sep 19 2014
Slate: "Ferrante’s sentences have an incantatory power, as well as profound psychological and cultural insights." - Sep 19 2014
#13 on the New England Indie Bestseller List - Sep 19 2014
#9 on the New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List - Sep 19 2014
#11 on the SoCal Inde Bestseller List - Sep 19 2014
#13 on the San Francisco Chronicle/NCIBA Bestseller List - Sep 19 2014
#6 on the New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List - Sep 18 2014
Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Ferrante’s women end up as single-minded and as sexually liberated as D.H. Lawrence’s women in love." - Sep 17 2014
The New York Times: "Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante’s work prepares you for the ferocity of it." - Sep 15 2014
Booklist (starred review): "Ferrante continues to imbue this growing saga with great magic, treating the girls’ years of marriage and motherhood with breathtaking honesty." - Sep 15 2014
The Quarterly Conversation: "A heartfelt and compelling portrait of female friendship" - Sep 14 2014
The San Francisco Chronicle: Recommended Books - Sep 12 2014
National Post: "It is difficult to find a more beautiful evocation of a lifelong friendship." - Sep 9 2014
Wall Street Journal Interviews Author Richard Flanagan: "The best thing I’ve read this year, far and away, would be Elena Ferrante." - Sep 9 2014
Harper's Magazine: "A phenomenological blending of psychic and concrete space." - Sep 9 2014
The Telegraph: "This is high-stakes, subversive literature." - Sep 8 2014
The New Criterion: "Their continuing friendship provides the backdrop for larger observations about life’s struggles." - Sep 7 2014
The Week: Richard House's 6 favorite books - Sep 7 2014
Debuts at #8 on the San Francisco Chronicle/NCIBA Bestseller List - Sep 5 2014
The Wall Street Journal: "Her novels ring so true and are written with such empathy that they sound confessional." - Sep 5 2014
Entertainment Weekly: An Interview With Elena Ferrante - Sep 5 2014
The New York Times Sunday Book Review: "Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk." - Sep 4 2014
The New Yorker: "Ferrante shows us the friction that generates human heat—she reminds us what the experience of liking is like." - Sep 4 2014
The Independent: "It's this duality at the heart of friendship that drives the novels." - Sep 3 2014
San Francisco Chronicle: "An oeuvre that’s taken the literary world by the hair." - Sep 3 2014
Vulture: 8 Books You Need to Read This September - Sep 3 2014
The New Yorker: Books To Watch Out For - Sep 2 2014
The Los Angeles Review of Books: "Ferrante is in the mold of authors who create characters in which the ego is the other, and one becomes who he/she is because of a double (e.g. Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras)." - Sep 2 2014
Vogue: “10 Literary Things To Look Forward To” - Sep 2 2014
Open Letters Monthly: "Perr Review: Ferrante's Hunger, Rebellion, and Rage" - Sep 2 2014
Flavorwire: "25 Must-Read Books for the Fall" - Sep 1 2014
PW Picks: Books of the Week - Aug 31 2014
Music & Literature: "The cumulative effect of her oeuvre is that of reading the distillation of someone’s deepest, most furtive thoughts." - Aug 28 2014
Los Angeles Times: "Ferrante writes with the kind of power saved for weather systems with female names, sparing no one... I don't want to read anything else." - Aug 22 2014
Publishers Weekly: "The Big Indie Books of Fall 2014" - Aug 22 2014
The New York Times Magazine: "Who is Elena Ferrante?" - Aug 19 2014
Vogue: In a rare interview, Elena Ferrante reveals the personal origins of her Neapolitan novels. - Aug 15 2014
Vogue: My Brilliant Friend helps "female friendship get its literary due." - Aug 14 2014
Rain Taxi: "A whirlwind account of friendship." - Aug 11 2014
Shelf Awareness: "Ferrante's genius lies in her startling emotional realism and blunt honesty about social interactions." - Aug 7 2014
JacquiWine's Journal: "[I'm] desperate to read the next installment in this utterly compelling story" - Aug 7 2014
Mona Simpson at Refinery 29: "She's a Neapolitan Alice Munro." - Aug 6 2014
The Writes of Woman: "A compelling novel." - Jul 24 2014
Kirkus (starred review): "Ferrante approaches her characters' divergent paths with an unblinking objectivity." - Jul 17 2014
Wisconsin Public Radio: Books Worth Reading - Jun 30 2014
Publishers Weekly (starred review): "Rapturous storytelling" - Jun 19 2014
Esquire: Books Every Man Should Read - Jun 19 2014
Mona Simpson at B&N Review: "Elena Ferrante is the Italian Alice Munro." - Jun 12 2014
The Guardian: "Ferrante is a master of the unsayable" - May 27 2014
A Year of Reading the World: "An enthralling reading experience, reminiscent of those childhood immersions in a story that turn the volume of the real world down to a whisper." - May 22 2014
Public Books: Public Picks 2014 - May 19 2014
Lizzy's Literary Life: "So much life, passion and drama in the lives of these two women" - May 16 2014
Tin House: "[Ferrante] holds nothing back from her portrayal of gender and culture and her writing is able to truly speak for itself." - May 7 2014
The Huffington Post: Nine Novels to Give Mom for Mother's Day - May 1 2014
Everyday eBook: "Elena's voice is meticulous, elegant and analytical on the surface but pulsing with barely contained emotion." - May 1 2014
Historical Novel Society: "Depicts a complicated friendship between two women amid the ins and outs of everyday life." - Apr 16 2014
The Story of a New Name Is a Finalist for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award - Apr 15 2014
Los Angeles Times: "Best Translated Book Award Finalists Announced" - Mar 27 2014
Thre Percent: "[Ferrante's] brilliance isn’t limited to her mechanics, her finesse or her creativity as a writer, but it’s her willingness to continually address the psychological machinations of women who have very unfeminine feelings." - Mar 20 2014
Goop Spring Break Reading: "Now two books into her trilogy, little-known Italian author Elena Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force." - Feb 4 2014
Bookforum: "Elena Ferrante . . . captures the violence, vulnerability, defensiveness, and seductions of [Naples] with skin-prickling candor." - Jan 8 2014
Ralphmag: "I kept being drawn in to this, to the point that I was neglecting my studies, my friends, my husband." - Jan 7 2014
The West Australian: "Ferrante captures female rage that liquefies any remains of the veneer of civility" - Jan 3 2014
The New York Times Book Review Podcast: "Everybody is talking about these Elena Ferrante Novels!" - Dec 31 2013
Tony's Reading List: Chooses The Story of a New Name as one of 2013's Books of the Year - Dec 20 2013
San Francisco Chronicle: Chooses The Story of a New Name as one of the Best 100 Books of 2013 - Dec 20 2013
The New Yorker Blog: James Wood chooses The Neapolitan Novels as his Favorite Books of 2013 - Dec 19 2013
The Millions: Ann Hood chooses The Neapolitan Novels as her greatest reading pleasures of 2013 - Dec 15 2013
San Francisco Chronicle: "The elusive yet volcanic Italian author Elena Ferrante has become a kind of insiders' icon on both sides of the Atlantic." - Dec 13 2013
The San Francisco Chronicle: "The through-line in all of Ferrante's investigations, for me, is nothing less than one long, mind-and-heart-shredding howl for the history of women (not only Neapolitan women), and its implicit j'accuse." - Dec 13 2013
The Millions: Elizabeth Strout says that reading Ferrante "reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can’t look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn’t know books could do this!" - Dec 2 2013
Newpages.com: "so much more than just a coming-of-age story; it is an epic that creates with intimate, small strokes a broad panorama of social displacement." - Nov 26 2013
The Times Literary Supplement: "clear, honest, and [in which] the facts – the facts of ordinary life – are extraordinarily gripping when read" - Nov 18 2013
The New Yorker: "artfully written and absorbing" - Nov 16 2013
Sydney Morning Herald: "they move far from contrivance, logic or respectability to ask uncomfortable questions about how we live, how we love, how we singe an existence in a deeply flawed world that expects pretty acquiescence from its women." - Nov 16 2013
The Age: "ask uncomfortable questions about how we live, how we love, how we singe an existence in a deeply flawed world that expects pretty acquiescence from its women." - Nov 4 2013
NPR Fresh Air: "one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." - Oct 30 2013
Three Guys One Book: "You are not to turn away from The Story of A New Name if you haven't read the first novel . . . Eventually, you'll go back out of sheer absorption . . . and read My Brilliant Friend anyway." - Oct 29 2013
Waxwing: "one of the most immersive, fascinating, and disquieting novels that I’ve read in the last few years." - Oct 24 2013
Melbourne Review: "Ferrante bewitches with her tiny, intricately drawn world" - Oct 24 2013
Time Out Melbourne: "Ferrante’s prose is deeply passionate" - Oct 23 2013
Bibliophile by the Sea: "[Ferrante] knows how to write about women and their life struggles." - Oct 5 2013
The Economist: "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you have never heard of." - Sep 29 2013
The New York Times Book Review: "Ferrante's gift for recreating real life stems as much from the quiet, unhurried rhythm of her writing as from the people and events shes describes.: - Sep 15 2013
Booklist: "Ferrante's writing in captivating and insightful." - Aug 31 2013
The Australian: "[Ferrante's] gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury" - Aug 27 2013
Los Angeles Review of Books: "An engrossing, wildly original contemporary epic about the demonic power of human (and particularly female) creativity checked by the forces of history and society." - Aug 26 2013
Publisher's Weekly: "The women's fraught relationship and shifting fortunes are the life forces of this poignant book." - Jul 29 2013
Readings Australia: "[Ferrante's] prose is stunning and polished, yet retains a raw, stripped-back feel." - Jul 17 2013
Text Publishing: "[The Story of a New Name] is an exhilirating reading experience." - Jul 16 2013
Kirkus Reviews: "Admirers of Ferrante's work will eagerly await the third volume." - Jul 11 2013
Mary Whipple Reviews: "Elena Ferrante creates a vivid picture of Neapolitan life." - Jun 27 2013
Tony's Reading List: "My Brilliant Friend is a book which makes for compelling, compulsive reading..." - Apr 5 2013
Vol. 1 Brooklyn: "Its level of detail, both spatial and in terms of characters major and minor, is practically Dickensian." - Mar 14 2013
Tolstoy is my Cat: "Sharp and honest and pulsating with life." - Feb 8 2013
The Europa Challenge Blog: "[Ferrante's] Naples is bursting with color and life." - Feb 5 2013
Campus Circle's Valentine's Day Reads: "Captivate[s] and tease[s] until you are wrestled into submission." - Feb 1 2013
Times Literary Supplement: "Cinematic in the density of its detail." - Jan 27 2013
Mirabile Dictu: "Rich in detail, it is a witty, moving...chronicle of the friendship of two girls." - Jan 25 2013
The Awl: "Get on the Elena Ferrante Bandwagon" - Jan 21 2013
The New Yorker: "Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing." - Jan 21 2013
The New Yorker: "Her novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." - Jan 21 2013
The New Yorker: "Her novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." - Dec 6 2012
Publishers Weekly - Interview - Nov 9 2012
Boston Bibliophile: "Subtle and artfully crafted book." - Nov 9 2012
The Boston Globe's "New and Recommended" list: "Four phantasmagoric, disorienting novels." - Oct 22 2012
The Barnes and Noble Review: "This gorgeous novel should bring a host of new reader's to one of Italy's most acclaimed authors." - Oct 20 2012
The Boston Globe: "Everyone should read anything with [Elena Ferrante's] name on it." - Oct 4 2012
Vogue: "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." - Oct 1 2012
San Francisco Chronicle: "Ferrante, beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein...writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency." - Sep 19 2012
Bibliophile By The Sea: "The translation is excellent...the author is a master of creating a wonderful sense of place." - Sep 18 2012
Shelf Awareness: "Ferrante draws an indelible picture." - Sep 1 2012
Booklist: "A compelling and moving coming-of-age story" - Aug 27 2012
Publishers Weekly: "More than a conventional up-from-poverty tale." - Jun 25 2012
Three Guys One Book: "Europa Editions is the small press with the big books." - Jul 3 2008
Words Without Borders: "[Ferrante] navigates the emotional minefields and unsparingly tallies the cycle of psychological damage among multiple generations of women in Leda's family in straightforward, almost curt language." - Jul 1 2008
Three Percent: "In this brave and searing novel by Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter explores the psyche of a woman who regrets having children." - Jun 3 2008
The New Yorker: "Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral" - May 23 2008
The Seattle Times: "This superb and scary Italian writer . . . has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations." - May 12 2008
The Boston Globe: "So refined, almost translucent, that it seems about to float away, in the end this piercing novel is not so easily dislodged from the memory." - Apr 30 2008
World Literature Today: "Another intense meditation n womanhood and motherhood from the author of The Days of Abandonment." - Apr 30 2008
Booklist: "It’s Leda’s voice that’s hypnotic, and it’s the writing that makes it that way. Ferrante can do a woman’s interior dialogue like no one else, with a ferocity that is shockingly honest, unnervingly blunt" - Mar 13 2008
Publishers Weekly: "Ferrante’s prose is stunningly candid, direct and unforgettable. From simple elements, she builds a powerful tale of hope and regret."