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- Karen RinaldiInterview
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante; The Unknown Craftsmen by Soetsu Yanagi; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara; Anything (literally) by Pema Chödrön; Breath by Tim Winton; On a Wave by Thad Ziolkowski; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister; Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit; Red…
- Diane CoyleInterview
It will have varied over the years, but recently – as well as the John McMillan book – Red Plenty by Francis Spufford. It’s a completely brilliant read which happens to be about the formal equivalence between a perfectly centrally planned and a perfectly competitive decentralized economy. Sometimes I recommend things…
- Laura Eve EngelInterview
I read that whole Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante in the last six months which, as I’m a slow reader, doesn’t leave room for a whole lot else. And I loved that series. But I’ll go with another utterly uncontroversial response and admit that I only just read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson a few months ago, and it was…
- Cariad LloydInterview
For fiction, it would have to be The Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante, starting with My Brilliant Friend and the subsequent novels. I also highly recommend trying with them again if you didn’t get into them the first time. I put down My Brilliant Friend a year ago but couldn’t get started for some reason. I picked…
- Alice PasquiniInterview
The Neapolitan Novels. It’s a 4-part series by the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante
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