Hints and tips:
...Still, strippers and fellow residents model for a wire-sculptor, Skye Ferrante....
...Where Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman used digital tech to de-age Robert De Niro, The Lost Daughter sticks with the analogue: another actor....
...The first episode takes Grant to Naples, where tour guide Sophia escorts him round the humble neighbourhood of Rione Luzzatti, fictionalised in Elena Ferrante’s celebrated sequence of novels....
...It’s hard to see what, exactly, Mola’s violent procedurals have in common with Ferrante’s evocations of Neapolitan life....
...Elena Ferrante’s novels have brought thousands to Naples in search of the lively underbelly where the books are set....
...If you want to go off the beaten track, I’d suggest one of British documentary maker Sophia Seymour’s walking tours, inspired by the Naples of author Elena Ferrante....
...It’s a tale of movie giants, from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway to writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski....
...The film version of Catch-22 was a wan, humourless slog — as Robert Gottlieb, Heller’s editor, wrote, “[Catch-22] was above all, surreal....
...This is the question faced by books editor and novelist Matt Holmes when he is asked to act as the literary executor for poet Robert Pope....
...There are only 14 novels by women out of the 100 listed (Robert McCrum’s 100 Best Novels offered just 21 women, a lamentable oversight)....
...On another, inspired by Elena Ferrante, I read only series....
...It’s a powerful reason: JK Rowling, when outed as Robert Galbraith, author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, said: “I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer, because [it] has been such a liberating experience...
...Robert Chandler, whose English translations include works by Andrei Platonov, Vasily Grossman and Alexander Pushkin, believes that the arrogance of the English-speaking world has meant that translators are...
...Lucy Kellaway FT columnist The only thing wrong with the fourth volume of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet — the story of an intense, lethal friendship between two women — is that it is the last one....
...The other five shortlisted authors were José Eduardo Agualusa, the pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante, the banned Chinese author Yan Lianke, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk and the Austrian author Robert...
...Fragments, by Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, RRP£10.99 / RRP$15 A collection of essays, interviews and letters by the Italian author of the Neapolitan quartet....
...The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Euan Cameron, Europa Editions, RRP£11.99/$18 The final instalment of Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan quartet picks up the story of life-long...
...Elena Ferrante Author of ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ (Europa Editions) The only book that I read this year in English is The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury/Vintage)....
...… Crime by Barry Forshaw The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Sphere, RRP£20 We mustn’t hold against Robert Galbraith the fact that he’s really mega-selling JK Rowling....
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