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Please join me, Ann Goldstein, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat for a discussion of Italian writers and anti-fascism at 6pm on Feb. 1 at Rizzoli
My Translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Jews” in The Massachusetts Review
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 Marimรฒ 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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SAVE THE DATE: Nov. 9 An Event for Elsa Morante’s LIES AND SORCERY at NYU’s Casa Italiana with me, Ann Goldstein, and Franco Baldasso
โ[Inย Lies and Sorcery] I discovered that an entirely female storyโentirely womenโs desires and ideas and feelingsโcould be compelling and, at the same time, have great literary value.โโElena FerranteElsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literatureโNatalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admiredโand yet her work remains …
My Latest Review @ Air Mail
Marriage Story โฆย Inย The Marriage Question,ย Claire Carlisleย explores howย George Eliotโsย unconventional union with George Lewes, a married philosopher, shaped theย Middlemarchย writerโs career.ย Jenny McPheeย reviews.ย In October of 1856, Mary Ann Evans, a successful English essayist and editor, wrote a scathing essay inย The Westminster Reviewย entitled โSilly Novels by Lady Novelists,โ criticizing the majority of novels written by and for women for …
Anteprima! Stars for Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly
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 …
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Cary Grant in 1955โs To Catch a Thief. For Art's Sake MAY 20, 2023 Why Stรฉphane Breitwieser, a penniless Frenchman who stole $2 billion worth of art, never sold a single work โฆIN 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 …
Join me and Jhumpa in a discussion of her scintillating new book, Translating Myself and Others, at the Casa Italiana, NYU
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 …
Join me for the Primo Levi Dialogues in Torino (or on YouTube) on April 7
Diretta streamingย sulย Canale YouTube del Centro Studi Primo Levi La lingua intorno a Primo Levi รจ prima di tutto quella dei suoi libri, il ventaglio di varietร dellโitaliano che, insieme a tasselli di lingue altre, entrano nel suo vocabolario; ma รจ anche il rumore del mondo: la lingua in cui Levi vive, quella che gli altri, intorno a …
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