New Titles from CPL Editions
THE RENEGADE Finally, historian Ariel Toaff’s first novel, The Renegade, is available in English from CPL Editions. It is a captivating literary debut: a meticulously documented historical mystery page-turner about…
Books
These Thoughts of Mine
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….
The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’ “Her Side of The Story”
In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a specific kind of affliction that could befall the women of their time. They called…
On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”
Whose (Who’s) Shakespeare? On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep” “You are a stranger here,” declares the opening poem of Amelia Rosselli’s slim volume Sleep (2023), “and have no place among us.” This…
Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered: From the Paris Review
Re-Covered: The Sky Falls by Lorenza Mazzetti By Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review, 2020 In 1956, in a central London café, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, and Lorenza Mazzetti wrote…
The Eternal Tendency Toward Fascism
Edited for Printed Matter. Original version with notes published in Allegoria. Every age has its fascism. Primo Levi When Fear of Freedom was first published in Italy in…
Truth or Dare?
Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue. The Markaz Review, 2021 A new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Harīrī (aka the Arab poet known as Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn Alī ibn Muhammad…
Davide Rodogno’s Night on Earth
A complex and fascinating mosaic of the Western Humanitarian Organizations activities in the Near East After World War One One of the most impactful aspects of the International Museum of…
Always Remember Your Name
A memoir by Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Forward by Ruth Franklin Andra and Tatiana Bucci, Always Remember Your Name, translated by Ann Goldstein. Astra House By all rights, this book…
Franz Kafka: With Ink and Graphite
I love and admire Kafka because he writes in a way that is totally closed off to me. (Primo Levi) Franz Kafka The Drawings. Edited by Andreas Kilcher. Yale University…