My Brilliant Friend

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

Disha Bose Recommends Elena Ferrante, R.F. Kuang, Sally Rooney, and More

 
By Disha Bose  May 5, 2025
Literary Adaptations

My Favorite Book-to-TV Adaptations of 2024

By Maris Kreizman  December 19, 2024
Italian Literature

“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

By Gina Frangello  June 6, 2024
Reading Lists

Stories About Stories (About Stories): A Reading List of Meta-Narrators

By Eskor David Johnson  October 24, 2023
Graphic Novel

Two Friends, Two Dolls, One Shared Fear of the Uknown

By Chiara Lagani, Elena Ferrante, Mara Cerri and Ann Goldstein  October 12, 2023
The Hub

Expand your international reading with all 37 entries of the Eurovision Book Contest.

By Eliza Smith  May 16, 2023
What to Watch

Language is the True Protagonist of My Brilliant Friend’s Third Season

By Maria Albano  April 1, 2022
The Hub

Watch the new trailer for the third season of My Brilliant Friend.

By Emily Temple  January 26, 2022
Best of the Year

The 10 Best Literary Adaptations of the Year

By Emily Temple  December 10, 2020
Daily Fiction

The Lying Life of Adults

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2020
The Hub

Watch the dramatic trailer for the second season of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend.

By Emily Temple  February 21, 2020
The Hub

Here’s the cover for Elena Ferrante’s next novel.

By Emily Temple  February 11, 2020
On Death

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
Adaptations

Merve Emre: When Elena Ferrante is Your Editor

By Merve Emre  January 14, 2020
Feature

Lit Hub Recommends: Long Sentences, Holiday Classics, Not Christmas

By Literary Hub  December 21, 2018
End of Year Lists

Counting Down the Top Literary Stories of 2018: 20 to 11

By Literary Hub  December 13, 2018
Deep Dive

Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was Sula

By Gwen Aviles  November 19, 2018
Op-Ed

My Brilliant Friend is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

By Emily Temple  November 12, 2018
Feature

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Have Defined the 2010s (So Far)

By Emily Temple  October 30, 2018
Feature

23 Literary Movies and TV Shows You Should Be Watching This Fall

By Emily Temple  September 20, 2018

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