Rachel Donadio

Rachel Donadio is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a former Rome bureau chief and correspondent for The New York Times, and the Curator of Cultural Programs at the American Library in Paris. (December 2024)

Meloni’s Cultural Revolution

Meloni’s Cultural Revolution

What changes has Italy’s far-right prime minister wrought?

June 6, 2024 issue

Escaping Biography

Escaping Biography

Nathalie Sarraute sought to free the novel from old narrative conventions and refused to admit the relevance of her own experience—as a woman, as a Jew—to her writing.

Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between

by Ann Jefferson

June 22, 2023 issue

France: After Lockdown, the Street

France: After Lockdown, the Street

Over the course of a long, strange April—during which France recorded nearly 20,000 Covid-19 deaths—something had shifted.

July 23, 2020 issue

Italy’s Great, Mysterious Storyteller

Italy’s Great, Mysterious Storyteller

The epic novels of Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Lost Daughter

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Troubling Love

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Days of Abandonment

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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