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Elena Ferrante

Translating Italian Women Writers in the Age of Elena Ferrante

Laura E. Ruberto

Presenting the first English-language translation of Gianna Manzini’s "Sulla soglia"—"Threshold"

Elena Ferrante. Italy’s Best-selling and Most Secretive Author

Judith Harris

Lavishly praised throughout the English-speaking world and somewhat more controversial at home, Neapolitan author Elena Ferrante is a literary phenomenon whose identity is an...

A Woman’s Touch

Letizia Airos

A new issue of our magazine is just about hitting New York City! Why begin with a translation of a medieval poet talking about women and love?

Part II: Italian Women. La Mamma, But not Only

Judith Harris

Italy has always loomed as a bastion of "la mamma" -- that pasta-cooking, loving and forceful woman exemplified by the mother and retired teacher in Nanni Moretti's recent movie,...

My Brilliant Friend: Growing Up a Girl in 1950s Naples

Natasha Lardera

Elena Ferrante's novel, My Brilliant Friend,was presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York as part of the New York European Book Club, a collaborative project of 7...

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