In The Ferrante Letters, four critics create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Elena Ferrante's work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that falls between the seminar and the book club. The Ferrante Letters is extremely absorbing. It's rare to come across university-nurtured criticism, informed by theory, that is jargon-free and studded with insight.