Elena Ferrante

Ann Goldstein

The Days of Abandonment

Jhumpa Lahiri

"A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition"--

In Other Words

Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lina, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighbourhood of Naples and working at a local factory. Elena has left Naples, earned a degree from an elite college, and published a novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned and fascinating interlocutors. The era, with its dramatic changes in sexual politics and social costumes, with its seemingly limitless number of new possibilities, is rendered with breathtaking vigour. This third Neapolitan Novel is not only a moving story of friendship but also a searing portrait of a rapidly changing world. Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of today's most compelling, insightful, and stylish authors has grown. She has gained admirers among authors, artists, and critics. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

The international bestseller, now in B-format paperback with a brand new cover.

The Story of a New Name

A New York Times BestsellerThe Neapolitan Novels (Book 1)A modern masterpice from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors set against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship.With My Brillant Briend Ferrante begins the rich, intense, and generous-hearted portrait of two friends, Elena and Lila. Through their lives, she tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country undergoing momentous change.

My Brilliant Friend

Story of the Lost Child

Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an absence of sense after being abandoned by her husband. Olga's days of abandonment become a desperate, dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love. When she finds herself trapped inside the four walls of her apartment in the middle of a summer heat wave, Olga is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal again.

A Novel

The Lost Daughter

The Lying Life of Adults

Chiara Lagani

Mara Cerri

Based on the novel by Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend : The Graphic Novel

Alessandro Baricco

Mr. Gwyn and Three Times at Dawn

Alba De Céspedes

Forbidden Notebook

Helena Janeczek

Girl with the Leica

Alessandro Piperno

Persecution

Pia Pera

Now in paperback comes Pia Pera's bestselling answer to "Lolita", where the novel is told not from the point of view of the seducer, Humbert Humbert, but of the young girl herself.

Lo's Diary

Diedrich Diederichsen

Art as Object 1958-1968

A Minimal Future?

Dundee Contemporary Arts (Art center)

Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Ulrike Groos

Allen Ruppersberg

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain)

A comprehensive monograph on Allen Ruppersberg's work, including installation views of the exhibition as well as documentary and personal image material. It also features essays by Ulrike Groos, Anne Goldstein, Judith E Vida-Spence, and Wolfgang Zumdick.

One of Many - Origins and Variants

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Jeff Wall

Lucy R. Lippard

Stephen Melville

Anne Rorimer

Reconsidering the Object of Art examines a generally underexposed (and therefore often misunderstood) period in contemporary art and highlights artists whose practices have inspired much of the most significant art being produced today. It illustrates and discusses many crucial, ground-breaking works that have not been seen within their proper historical context, if they have been individually seen at all. By 1969 such artists as Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and others had begun to create works using a variety of media that sought to reevaluate certain fundamental premises about the formal, material, and contextual definitions of art. This first comprehensive overview of Conceptual art in English documents the work of fifty-five artists, work that marked a significant rupture with traditional forms and concepts of painting, sculpture, photography, and film. Also included are essays that elucidate the significant aesthetic issues that gave rise, in both America and Europe, to the highly individual, but related, modes of Conceptual art. Lucy Lippard (art historian) writes on the broader sociopolitical milieu in which this work was made; Stephen Melville (Professor of Art History, Ohio State University) probes the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of Conceptual art; and Jeff Wall (artist) discusses the relationship between Conceptual art and photography. Anne Rorimer and Ann Goldstein (curators of the exhibition the book accompanies) respectively take up the role of language in this work, and discuss each of the artists. Copublished with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1965-1975

Reconsidering the Object of Art

Ann Goldstein

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