A new book tells the true stories of the most notorious matriarchs in organised crime

The 24-year-old French author didn't read until he was 17. But his incendiary portrait of his upbringing, among a routinely racist, sexist and homophobic French cohort of heavy drinkers, has become a publishing sensation

The unmasking of Elena Ferrante undermines the relationship of readers and writers

Investigation criticised as invasion of privacy of both writer and Neapolitan Novels publisher

As the judges arrive in Ireland, before making a decision on Friday, we look at the best bits from our European Capital of Culture proposals from Limerick, Galway and the Three Sisters

The ungovernable city known as Gomorrah has experienced a ‘riscatto’ – redemption – thanks to the popularity of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

‘I wanted to do a Masters degree in Irish literature but I ended up getting pregnant instead’