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From interviews conducted by journalists and readers with Elena Ferrante since 2003. The correspondence is included in Frantumaglia, a collection of Ferrante’s papers that was published last month by Europa…

The Torment and the Engine

by Elena Ferrante,

From an interview in the Spring 2015 issue of The Paris Review. Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist whose books include The Days of Abandonment, My Brilliant…

Visible Cities

by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin,

From Italo Calvino: Letters 1941–1985, out this month from Princeton University Press. Franco Maria Ricci, a publisher, commissioned Calvino to prepare a text for a volume containing reproductions of the…

A Question of Circumstances

by Luigi Pintor,Translated by Gregory Elliott,

From Servabo: A Fin de Siècle Memoir, first published in Italian in 1991, and included in Memories from the Twentieth Century, edited by Alberto Toscano, a collection of three of…

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Prose by Any Other Name

The Torment and the Engine

Visible Cities

A Question of Circumstances

Anecdote of a singer

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Prose by Any Other Name

The Torment and the Engine

Visible Cities

A Question of Circumstances

Anecdote of a singer

November 1850

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