These Thoughts of Mine
By Gury Schwarz. Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual. He experienced Italian racial persecution and in…
Upcoming CPL Editions’ books: The Renegade
Finally, historian Ariel Toaff’s first novel, The Renegade, is available in English from CPL Editions. It is a captivating literary…
The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’ “Her Side of the Story”
By Margarita Diaz. In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a specific…
On Amelia Rosselli’s Sleep
by Taylor Yoonji Kang. "You are a stranger here" declares the opening poem of Amelia Rosselli’s slim volume Sleep (2023), “and…
Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered
Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review, 2020. In 1956, in a central London café, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, and…
The Eternal Tendency Toward Fascism
Stanislao Pugliese. Levi was strongly attracted to the radical new ideology of Giustizia e Libertà. GL was the only movement…
Truth of Dare?
Farah Abdessamad. The new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Harīrī (aka the Arab poet known as Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim…
The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet
Ed Simon. Kleinhenz writes: “For centuries the sonnet has remained the most popular and the most difficult poetic form in…
Italy and the Jews Beyond the Borders
Michele Sarfatti’s new book I confini di una persecuzione (The Borders of a Persecution-Fascism and the Jews outside of Italy…
Night on Earth
Rodogno paints a broad picture of Western humanitarian organizations’ activities in the Near East after World War One, in particular…
The Last Muslim of Italy
David Abulafia During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist. Dante does not mention…
Bashing Micól
It is never easy to reconcile literary works with their theatrical adaptations. Even more so when the work in question…
