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Rachel Donadio

Rachel Donadio is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and former Rome Bureau Chief and European Cultural Correspondent for The New York Times. (July 2020)

Naples, 1964; photograph by Bruno Barbey

Italy’s Great, Mysterious Storyteller

The epic novels of Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Lost Daughter

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Troubling Love

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Days of Abandonment

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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December 18, 2014 issue

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