This essay appears in the new issue of  The Lifted Brow. If you count reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels amongst your greatest book-related pleasures, then chances are you understand the urge I felt to buy her English translator, Ann Goldstein, a thank you drink. One would think that lobby bars, like New York City and … Continue reading Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante and the Inner Workings of The New Yorker