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The Jews BY NATALIA GINZBURG Translated from Italian by Jenny McPhee The day after the events in Munich, the Catholic Press Association called me to say it was conducting an inquiry regarding the massacre and asked if I would express my opinion. I refused to respond. I told them that I never respond to inquiries.[*] …
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and Elsa and I are doing a little jig for joy! If you are in New York City on November 9 at 6:30, please join me at NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò for a presentation of the book with Ann Goldstein and Franco Baldasso. From Vivan Gornick in The New York Times: Ferrante Before Ferrante …
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“[In Lies and Sorcery] I discovered that an entirely female story—entirely women’s desires and ideas and feelings—could be compelling and, at the same time, have great literary value.”—Elena FerranteElsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired—and yet her work remains …
Marriage Story … In The Marriage Question, Claire Carlisle explores how George Eliot’s unconventional union with George Lewes, a married philosopher, shaped the Middlemarch writer’s career. Jenny McPhee reviews. In October of 1856, Mary Ann Evans, a successful English essayist and editor, wrote a scathing essay in The Westminster Review entitled “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” criticizing the majority of novels written by and for women for …
LIES AND SORCERY [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Elsa MoranteTranslator: Jenny McPheeReview Issue Date: August 1, 2023Online Publish Date: July 13, 2023Publisher:NYRB ClassicsPages: 800Price ( Paperback ): $24.95Publication Date: September 19, 2023ISBN ( Paperback ): 9781681376844Section: FictionAn epic tale of passion and obsession.At the heart of this novel, first published in Italy in 1948, is a tortured pair of love triangles: When Francesco falls in love …
Cary Grant in 1955’s To Catch a Thief. For Art's Sake MAY 20, 2023 Why Stéphane Breitwieser, a penniless Frenchman who stole $2 billion worth of art, never sold a single work …IN THE ART THIEF, MICHAEL FINKEL CHRONICLES AN EPIC ART-STEALING SPREE. JENNY MCPHEE REVIEWS. The glamorous swirl around world-class thievery is exquisitely conjured by Grace Kelly …
BOOK PRESENTATION [ZOOM] Thu, 05/19/2022 - 5:30pm Jhumpa Lahiri with Jenny McPhee General RSVP Book Presentation on Zoom In order to participate, RSVP and you will receive an e-mail with your Zoom linkby 12pm on May 19If you don't receive the e-mail by then, contact us at casa.italiana@nyu.edu Translating Myself and Others(2022, Princeton University Press) by Jhumpa Lahiri Luminous essays …
Diretta streaming sul Canale YouTube del Centro Studi Primo Levi La lingua intorno a Primo Levi è prima di tutto quella dei suoi libri, il ventaglio di varietà dell’italiano che, insieme a tasselli di lingue altre, entrano nel suo vocabolario; ma è anche il rumore del mondo: la lingua in cui Levi vive, quella che gli altri, intorno a …
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