I first encountered Elena Ferrante’s fierce, singular voice in her second novel, “The Days of Abandonment,” an unrelenting exploration of a woman whose husband has left her. In her newest ...

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. One of the literary world’s ...

But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years. By Joumana Khatib Seemingly overnight, Elena Ferrante — or rather, the novelist writing as Elena Ferrante — found worldwide ...

Since the New York Times said that Elena Ferrante's 2012 novel My Brilliant Friend was the best novel of the 21st century, we naturally had to ask ourselves: What's up with Ferrante? "Elena ...

Readers around the world were transported to post-war Naples by My Brilliant Friend (L’amica Geniale in Italian), the first entry of Elena Ferrante’s sprawling but intensely personal ...

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 ...

(This essay was translated from the Italian by Edoardo Andreoni.) Elena Ferrante’s narrative is a layered structure in which no thread is ever lost, but each resurfaces in the right place ...

HBO has released the trailer for the last eight episodes of the series, based on Elena Ferrante's worldwide-bestselling quartet of Neapolitan novels, with Season 4 adapting the last book ...

Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend inspired a kind of instant devotion that rarely greets literary novels these days. The frenzy only accelerated with the publication of the subsequent books ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Like the novel by Elena Ferrante on which it is based, the opening line of Netflix’s “The Lying Life of Adults” is spoken by the precocious teenage ...

Here are five things I’ve been watching, reading and listening to lately → I will watch any screen adaptation of any work by Elena Ferrante. So far, I’m really liking this series based on ...