ann goldstein

Living Outside of Language with Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘In Other Words’

Living Outside of Language with Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘In Other Words’

Lahiri's sense of alienation informs all of her writing and makes In Other Words (In Altre Parole), an achingly lonely, interior work.

Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet Offers Penetrating Psychological and Sociopolitical Insight

Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet Offers Penetrating Psychological and Sociopolitical Insight

A committed feminist, Ferrante writes with often astonishing candor, even "ferocity", about women's lives, their conflicted relationships with their bodies, with each other, and with men.