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The power of anonymity: as Twitter celebrity Dril reveals his identity, an Elena Ferrante expert explains what he's lost

Scrolling through US comedian and social media phenomenon Dril’s Twitter account can be a confusing experience for those, like me, who don’t share the same references to “Weird Twitter”, videogaming, fast food, obsessive branding and 1990s popular culture.

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Resistance fighter, novelist - and Sartre’s favourite agony aunt: rediscovering Alba Céspedes

Championed by Elena Ferrante, Céspedes’s neo-realist classic The Forbidden Notebook is being reissued 70 years after it was first published. It still speaks to women’s lives today

The Guardian - UK

China’s censored feminist movement finds solace in Sally Rooney

Rooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generation

The Guardian - AU

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My favourite fictional character: I'll never forget these half-wild, 'too much' heroines – Philip Pullman's Lyra and Elena Ferrante's Lila

Reading Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights to my children around 2007, I met its heroine, Lyra Belacqua. My children barely remember her. I will never forget her – nor Pantalaimon, her daemon; her soul in protean animal form.

The Conversation

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante audiobook review – faith and deceit

Marisa Tomei narrates this sensational coming-of-age tale set in Naples, in which a young girl unravels her family’s secrets

The Guardian - UK

Review: Not ready to leave Italy after 'The White Lotus'? Netflix has the show for you

"The Lying Life of Adults," the latest novel by the famously pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante, has been adapted — one might say inevitably — for the screen as a six-part Netflix series. It follows HBO's lauded and ongoing "My Brilliant Friend," based on Ferrante's "Neapolitan" tetralogy, and three books…

Los Angeles Times

The power of women: acclaimed Italian author Elena Ferrante on patriarchy and protest in Iran

The award-winning novelist talks to Shiva Akhavan Rad about the fight for equality in Iran

The Guardian - UK

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A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain review – reading as a sensual act

The novelist’s atmospheric evocation of favourite scenes from others’ books strips them of their weight

The Guardian - UK

Kamila Shamsie's Best of Friends is an affecting novel of friendship, power and ethics

Best of Friends, the latest novel from Women’s Prize-winner Kamila Shamsie, explores complexities of power and ethics within an enduring female friendship. Focused on two central characters, Zahra and Maryam, the novel considers questions of integrity, loyalty, and platonic love.

The Conversation

Five books to read that bring Naples to life

Napoli, or Naples for English speakers, is my favourite city. It’s a city of stark contrasts – glorious architecture competing with multi-layered graffiti, hidden piazze surrounded by piled-up rubbish.

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My Brilliant Friend’s final scene is an exercise in unbearable pathos

Lenù has spent three seasons desperate for freedom in HBO’s sumptuous Elena Ferrante adaptation, but when she finally boards a plane to a new life, she’s more confined than ever. In her new TV column, Amanda Whiting examines the meaning of all those wasted air miles

The Independent UK

True writing is a convulsive act: inside the mind of Elena Ferrante

Where does great writing come from? How does the reading of writers shape their work? Perhaps the great writers are true originals, free from influence?

The Conversation

Review: 'In the Margins,' by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

An illuminating collection of essays on the joy of reading and the art of writing by the acclaimed Italian novelist.

Tribune News Service

In the Margins by Elena Ferrante review – a window into the writer’s world

Four essays by the author of the Neapolitan Quartet reveal her struggles while developing her literary voice

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My Brilliant Friend review – this gorgeous drama is television at its best

Series three of this impeccably stylish adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels is seductive, cinematic and weaves a spell unlike anything else

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Elena Ferrante beautifully unpacks friendship, class and privilege

The TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend reaches Lenù and Lila’s friendship in 70s Italy. Plus: Crufts. Here’s what to watch this evening

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