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More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

Disha Bose Recommends Elena Ferrante, R.F. Kuang, Sally Rooney, and More

By Disha Bose | May 5, 2025

In Praise of “Toxic” Female Friendships

In Praise of “Toxic” Female Friendships

Ginny Hogan on the Intersection of Beauty and Disappointment, on the Page and the Screen

By Ginny Hogan | April 25, 2025

“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

Gina Frangello Considers Her Personal History in Relation to the Neapolitan Quartet

By Gina Frangello | June 6, 2024

Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief

Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief

“Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.”

By Lilly Dancyger | May 14, 2024

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Parini Shroff on Writing Against Tropes and Celebrating Platonic Love Stories

By Parini Shroff | January 3, 2023

Charlotte Wood on Exploring the Longevity of Female Friendship

Charlotte Wood on Exploring the Longevity of Female Friendship

First Draft Podcast">In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 22, 2022

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Louise Nealon on Jealousy, Naivety, and Running to Catch Up with Her Characters

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 29, 2021

How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market

By Sarah Lonsdale | December 23, 2020

Passing">On Female Friendship and Transgression in Nella Larsen's Passing

By Lit Century | November 3, 2020

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Lit Century Podcast">Megan Abbott Talks to Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | October 28, 2020

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Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman Recommend Their Favorites

By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman | July 14, 2020

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By Katie Yee | June 18, 2020

Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

Marjan Kamali on Visiting the Homes of Her Readers

By Marjan Kamali | March 13, 2020

For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

The Liberating Messiness of the Neapolitan Quartet Friendship

By Tiziana de Rogatis | December 17, 2019

My 8 Favorite Books About Female Friendship

My 8 Favorite Books About Female Friendship

From Khaled Hosseini to Zadie Smith and More

By Jacqueline Mroz | December 4, 2018

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

Why Have They Been Mythologized as Solitary Eccentrics or Isolated Geniuses?

By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney | October 11, 2017

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