The HBO series My Brilliant Friend is based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. The show is not inspired by true events but is a fictional creation representing a new and formidable challenge.

Elena Ferrante, the best-selling and mysterious Italian writer, returned to American bookstores with her 2021 novel, “The Lying Life of Adults.” Here’s an overview of her work → My ...

Ever since her first novel, Troubling Love, was published in 1992, nobody has known the true identity of bestselling Italian author Elena Ferrante. The name printed on the cover of her books was a ...

We Need Less Empathy The belief that using one’s imagination is cultural appropriation has turned author Elena Ferrante’s identity into a controversy. How can we know if Elena Ferrante is ...

Elif Batuman, Sheila Heti, Rachel Cusk, Elena Ferrante - Manguso must be included with these writers because they all go as far as they can and then further as they attempt to uncover certain ways ...

The new TV adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend recreates that key scene just as you imagined. And what a relief. When books are as well-loved as Ferrante’s four Neapolitan ...

neither the book nor its author received much attention in the United States until recently. In 2016, Elena Ferrante published “Frantumaglia,” a collection of letters and reflections in which ...