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.

Under the name Elena Ferrante, this resolutely private writer went on to publish two more stand-alone novels and a four-part series known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet, every one of which ...

Elena Ferrante’s quartet of Neapolitan novels all contain small but thrilling acts of feminist revolt. Like the writer Mary Gaitskill, who has also written extensively about female friendship ...

Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" Cover. Until recently, few readers or critics on this side of the Atlantic paid much attention to “Elena Ferrante,” the presumed pseudonym of a ...

The pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante has captivated readers around the world with her bestselling Neapolitan Novels, a four-book series that explores the friendship of two women from Naples.

Elena Ferrante has a new book! Be sure to get a notebook before reading it. ‘In the Margins’ is a collection of lectures in which the mysterious author shares her views on literature and ...

Dear Elena Ferrante, I write not as someone who knows you personally but as a reader, and I believe this is the kind of acquaintance you prefer.

“The Lying Life of Adults,” Ferrante’s first novel in five years, puts such worries to rest. The story, translated once again by the nimble and attentive Goldstein, begins in the early 1990s ...

Ferrante had closely guarded her secret. The author specifically said — in her rare interviews — that she treasured her anonymity. “I simply decided once and for all, over 20 years ago, to ...

Elena Ferrante, Private Novelist In her new book, the anonymous author assembles the fragments of her 24-year struggle to assert her own identity. Construction by Stephen Doyle.

BE FOREWARNED: Elena Ferrante’s postwar Naples, as depicted in “My Brilliant Friend,” is not the Italy of escapist fantasies, of villas under a Tuscan sun, of Roman holidays.It is savage and ...