Amos Gitai’s stage version of Letter to a Friend In Gaza, which had its World Premiere at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston on May 29th, is an absorbing, demanding, thought-provoking, and lyrical multimedia work. In times of “art-as-entertainment”, it restores confidence in the theater’s capacity to pose politically and culturally loaded questions.
Cinema as Archive
The memory Gitai is trying to archive is that of the foundation and striving of a young country: contradictions, aspirations,…
Defoe as Possible Model
The structure of History, a Novel, departs substantially from Morante’s previous novels and poses some interesting interpretative questions. While critics…
Weightless
The ease with which man adapts to weightlessness is a fascinating mystery. Considering that for many people travel by sea…
Historian Michele Sarfatti is Honored at Columbia University
A crowd of 250 people at the Italian Academy at Columbia University paid homage to historian Michele Sarfatti. Renowned for his groundbreaking…
