BE FOREWARNED: Elena Ferrante’s postwar Naples, as depicted in “My Brilliant Friend,” is not the Italy of escapist fantasies, of villas under a Tuscan sun, of Roman holidays. It is savage and ...

The fourth and final season of HBO’s sumptuous 20th-century saga “My Brilliant Friend” brings us back to Naples one more time. HBO has released the trailer for the last 10 episodes of the series, ...

Elena Ferrante, best known for her beloved Neapolitan Quartet and famed anonymity, has a new adaptation in the works. Ferrante's latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, was released in Italian last ...

Naples remains a city in love with the beautiful game - Fred Garratt-Stanley finds football, culture and community in the ...

The series will shoot in Italy this summer. HBO wants another high-end Italian series. After Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” the cable network has sought out “My Brilliant Friend,” an ...

The Lying Life of Adults. By Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein.Europa; 324 pages; $26 and £20. FIFTEEN MILLION readers have waited five years for a new novel by the pseudonymous Italian ...

I spent eight years chronicling the ways poverty bred violence in post-Industrial New Haven neighborhood. Then I read the Neapolitan Quartet and recognized the same struggles in Naples. I was late to ...

The latest novel from world-renowned Italian author Elena Ferrante still isn't out yet in the U.S. but Netflix has some bella notizia to share, regardless. The streaming service and Fandango are ...

Many people reading this review will already know Elena Ferrante’s work, having devoured her novels known as “The Neapolitan Quartet:” “My Brilliant Friend,” “The Story of a New Name,” “Those Who ...

After narrating the last three seasons as protagonist Elena Greco, Alba Rohrwacher joins onscreen in all episodes directed by Laura Bispuri. The series is created by Saverio Costanzo, who hands ...