Jenny McPhee | The New York Review of Books

Jenny McPhee

Jenny McPhee, a writer and translator, is the director of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. Her translations from Italian have included books by Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, Giacomo Leopardi, and Curzio Malaparte. She is also the author of the novels The Center of Things (2001), No Ordinary Matter (2004), and A Man of No Moon (2007). (May 2020)

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The Hawthornes Visit the Colosseum

Nathaniel could not hope that his daughter Una would fill all the empty, inadequate, sad places in him, as much as he, at times, was convinced she could. He was, in fact, terribly afraid that this need of his would somehow destroy her.

May 2, 2020