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My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is a 2011 novel by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the first of four volumes in Ferrante's critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels series. [ 1 ] The novel, translated into English by Ann Goldstein in 2012, explores themes of female friendship, social class, and personal identity against the ...
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...
Gender novels may also fall into the category of feminist literature. Famous gender novels include Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Naomi Alderman's The Power and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. Many of these gender novels have been critically acclaimed for challenging of gender roles and expectations [1]
In 2019, The Guardian ranked My Brilliant Friend the 11th best book since 2000. [17] The overall series was also listed in Vulture as one of the 12 "New Classics" since 2000. [18] In 2024, the New York Times ranked the series' first installment "My Brilliant Friend" as the best book of the 21st century. [19]
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
This week's cover for The New Yorker is making waves on social media as people react to the magazine's illustration.. The image, titled “A Mother’s Work” by R. Kikuo Johnson, gives readers a ...
Ambivalent sexism is a theoretical framework which posits that sexism has two sub-components: hostile sexism (HS) [1] and benevolent sexism (BS). [1] Hostile sexism reflects overtly negative evaluations and stereotypes about a gender (e.g., the ideas that women are incompetent and inferior to men).
The cover of The New Yorker’s 2 October edition was illustrated by Barry Blitt and pokes fun at the current generation of ageing American political titans.