Printed Matter

By Gury Schwarz. Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual. He experienced Italian racial persecution and in…

Finally, historian Ariel Toaff’s first novel, The Renegade, is available in English from CPL Editions. It is a captivating literary…

By Margarita Diaz. In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a specific…

by Taylor Yoonji Kang. "You are a stranger here" declares the opening poem of Amelia Rosselli’s slim volume Sleep (2023), “and…

Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review, 2020. In 1956, in a central London café, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, and…

Stanislao Pugliese. Levi was strongly attracted to the radical new ideology of Giustizia e Libertà. GL was the only movement…

Farah Abdessamad. The new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Harīrī (aka the Arab poet known as Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim…

Ed Simon. Kleinhenz writes: “For centuries the sonnet has remained the most popular and the most difficult poetic form in…

Michele Sarfatti’s new book I confini di una persecuzione (The Borders of a Persecution-Fascism and the Jews outside of Italy…

Rodogno paints a broad picture of Western humanitarian organizations’ activities in the Near East after World War One, in particular…

David Abulafia During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist. Dante does not mention…

It is never easy to reconcile literary works with their theatrical adaptations. Even more so when the work in question…