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“A Continuous Game of Exchanges and Reversals”: Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant...
Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, the first in her trilogy of ‘Neapolitan novels,’ tells of the childhood and adolescence of two friends, Elena and Lila, living in a rough edge of Naples in the...
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“For Myself Only”: Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
I’m glad I kept going with Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan trilogy. I wasn’t bowled over by My Brilliant Friend: I described myself as interested but not emotionally gripped. To some extent, I felt the...
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“Absence of Sense”: Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
Remember when I said I couldn’t think of a book that I actively hated, that I truly regretted having read? Guess what: I found one! I did finish reading it, partly because I wanted to be sure it didn’t...
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“Each of us narrates our lives as it suits us”: Elena Ferrante, Those Who...
I finished reading Elena Ferrante’s Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay this weekend. I actually took it with me to Vancouver and had started reading it on the flight out — a bit to my own surprise,...
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Open Letters Monthly, September 2014 Edition
Another new month, another new issue of Open Letters Monthly! As always, I hope you’ll check it out; I think almost anyone could find something of interest in it! Among my favorites this month are...
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Finished with Ferrante. Probably Forever.
I actually hadn’t intended to read The Story of the Lost Child. By the time I finished Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, I felt that three long volumes of minutiae (however intense) and interpersonal...
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