Natalie Portman loves to read, and there are five books she recommends to everyone, including 'On Photography' by Susan Sontag and an Elena Ferrante classic.

Here is the kind of novel you must go in prepared for, such is the deeply sad and at times harrowing nature of this book. However, with a central character who will stay with you long after the final ...

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The Neapolitan novel "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante has topped several best-seller lists, even being described as the 'greatest' book of the 21st century. While the secrets of its success ...

The Times reported that Ferrante herself was involved in writing the Netflix show, which joins two other cinematic translations of the pseudonymous Italian author.

No one knows who Elena Ferrante really is — the author's identity is a secret. Normally when I hear something like this, my reaction is muted. I understand why a writer might not want to become ...

Book review: Elena Ferrante steps beyond the margins into the dark Ferrante talks about writing as a painful struggle, putting paid to myths of words coming to authors as if in automatic writing.

There is a moment in Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” when Elena, the narrator and possibly the author’s alter ego, reacts to a letter she has received from Lila, the other main ...

Elena Ferrante’s latest book of nonfiction offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the creative process of one of our most elusive authors. The book is comprised of four lectures: three on ...