The cluster of dwellings, a motley collection of ancient ruins and pristine modern cottages, beckoned, as I swerved off the road running parallel to the Noce torrent. ...
The Covid-19 emergency has pushed Italian communities – as well as the rest of the world – to start dancing and singing on balconies. While the victims are tragically increasing, ...
I keep thinking ahead to when this will be a memory. The worst spring. The spring when the blossoms and the birds were oblivious to our cries. Continue ...
Xenobe Purvis reviews Elena Ferrante’s contender for the Man International Booker Prize. Continue Reading Story of an Erasure: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
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Gomorrah, the incredibly successful Italian series, forces us to ask who has the luxury of representing oneself on screen, and who has to settle for how others represent them. ...
Teddy Cutler casts his eye over Groups C and D of the 2014 World Cup. Continue Reading Group Dynamics: World Cup Profiles, vol. ii
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This week, Toni Servillo – perhaps Europe’s greatest actor – brings to the Barbican his production of Le voci di dentro (Inner Voices), a 1948 work by Neapolitan playwright Eduardo ...
In this extract from his forthcoming book Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again, Ben Tanzer takes one last adventure into the Italian unknown. Continue ...
“An enemy aeroplane appears at the edge of the blue, among the gun bursts. Eyes look up towards the torn sky. You can see the whites, but not the whites ...
The path to the water is long and winding, cutting down past the bakery through the olive groves as the scent from lemon trees floats on the wind. For a ...
The Sea Empress Motel is right on the beach. Despite maxims concerning the setting of foundations, the architect, whom I pictured as a brush-cut, glasses-wearing fellow in summery attire, wanted ...
