Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (All reviews)

Nov 24 2015
Book Review: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
— The Phraser
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
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 29 2015
The Independent’s list of alternative Man Booker Longlist titles: THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY
— The Independent
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 4 2015
"Follow Ferrante’s tale to learn that this is what women, not only as women but as people, are."
— Harvard Review Online
Apr 29 2015
WHY THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY should win the Best Translated Book Award
— Three Percent
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 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 11 2015
Top Ten Women's Books in Translation
— Litro Magazine
Apr 7 2015
Flavorwire on the BTBA 2015: "It's Ferrante's for the taking."
— Flavorwire
Jan 31 2015
The Australian: Being Female in the Man's World of Naples
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
The New York Review of Books: Italy's Great, Mysterious Storyteller
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 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
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
#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
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 11 2014
Shelf Awareness: "Ferrante's genius lies in her startling emotional realism and blunt honesty about social interactions."
Jul 24 2014
Kirkus (starred review): "Ferrante approaches her characters' divergent paths with an unblinking objectivity."
Jun 30 2014
Publishers Weekly (starred review): "Rapturous storytelling"