For a Memory Culture Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
This essay appears an preface to the English edition of Valentina Pisanty’s book The Guardians of Memory...
Books
Sartre, The Jew and the Other
Book Review: Manuela Consonni and Vivian Liska, Sartre, Jews and the Other, The Vidal Sassoon Studies in...
Laura Orvieto’s Stories of the World
Storie Della Storia del Mondo, Laura Orvieto’s Timeless Introduction to Homeric Lore. Maxine De Winter in...
The Exact Number of Stars
Ribka Sibhatu, Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! Translated by André Naffis-Sahely from the Italian and from Italian translations...
A Convert’s Tale
A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Tamar Herzig’s meticulously researched and...
La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana
At first glance and especially from a certain distance, Amelia Rosselli, reclining in her rocker on...
An extraordinary gift
Centro Primo Levi, has recently received a wonderful gift: a rare first edition of Primo Levi’s...
Reluctant Jews
Sandro Gerbi in Conversation with Alessandro Cassin AC: You have vast experience in biographical writing of...
Concentrated Modernity
The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity. This introduction to the book by...
Defoe as a Possible Model
The structure of History, a Novel, departs substantially from Morante’s previous novels and poses some interesting...