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Rachel Donadio is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a former Rome bureau chief and European culture correspondent for The New York Times. (June 2024)
Escaping Biography
Nathalie Sarraute sought to free the novel from old narrative conventions and refused to admit the relevance of her own experience—as a woman, as a Jew—to her writing.
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between
by Ann Jefferson
June 22, 2023 issue
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
December 18, 2014 issue
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