My Translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Jews” in The Massachusetts Review

The Jews BY NATALIA GINZBURG Translated from Italian by Jenny McPhee The day after the events in Munich, the Catholic Press Association called me to say it was conducting an inquiry regarding the massacre and asked if I would express my opinion. I refused to respond. I told them that I never respond to inquiries.[*] …

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SAVE THE DATE: Nov. 9 An Event for Elsa Morante’s LIES AND SORCERY at NYU’s Casa Italiana with me, Ann Goldstein, and Franco Baldasso

“[In Lies and Sorcery] I discovered that an entirely female story—entirely women’s desires and ideas and feelings—could be compelling and, at the same time, have great literary value.”—Elena FerranteElsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired—and yet her work remains …

My Latest Review @ Air Mail

Marriage Story … In The Marriage Question, Claire Carlisle explores how George Eliot’s unconventional union with George Lewes, a married philosopher, shaped the Middlemarch writer’s career. Jenny McPhee reviews.  In October of 1856, Mary Ann Evans, a successful English essayist and editor, wrote a scathing essay in The Westminster Review entitled “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” criticizing the majority of novels written by and for women for …

Anteprima! Stars for Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly

LIES AND SORCERY [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Elsa MoranteTranslator: Jenny McPheeReview Issue Date: August 1, 2023Online Publish Date: July 13, 2023Publisher:NYRB ClassicsPages: 800Price ( Paperback ): $24.95Publication Date: September 19, 2023ISBN ( Paperback ): 9781681376844Section: FictionAn epic tale of passion and obsession.At the heart of this novel, first published in Italy in 1948, is a tortured pair of love triangles: When Francesco falls in love …