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Books, Essays October 16, 2025

La Storia

Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

Essays May 19, 2025

An Act of Faith

It is our duty as young people to believe in life. Believing in life means believing in ourselves. But seeing that our character cannot fully develop if not in a…

Books April 17, 2025

Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy

The New York tribute to Nurith Aviv opens with Translating, the last film of a trilogy that began with From One Language to Another and continued with Sacred Language, Spoken…

Books April 15, 2025

On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)

From One Language to the Other was broadcast by one of Arte’s evening shows dedicated to languages together with a 17-minute documentary filmed in Africa, Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet. This short…

Books April 15, 2025

Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”

Nurith Aviv: filmer la parole. Edited by Claire Buchbinder, Marianne Dautrey, and Nathalie Georges-Lambrichs. Exils Éditeur (2025).  A new book celebrating Nurith Aviv’s films has just been published in France….

News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…