Diario Ottuso
“Lyric prose is a way to enter the market: a parcel of prose is a lost...
Books
Publishing and Culture: The Alchemy of Ideas
Since the days of Gutenberg and probably long before, publishers have depended on what was most...
Translating Giorgio Bassani
The work of relatively few Italian novelists from the 20th Century has so far been translated...
New Book Explores America’s Flirt With Italian Fascism
Mauro Canali’s La scoperta dell’Italia examines the activity, impact, and perspectives of American correspondents in Italy...
The Year of History, A Novel
When Elsa Morante published La Storia. Romanzo in 1974 it was a watershed event that invested...
Corrado Cagli, the American Years
In the 1930’s the young Italian artist, Corrado Cagli was a rising star of the Scuola...
Nuto Revelli: the History of the Present
It is a rare pleasure to turn the last page of a book, and remain in...
Survival and Holocaust Historiography
Liliana Picciotto’s new book, Salvarsi (Einaudi 2017), stems from a research project she lead for the...
Special Offer for Printed Matter’s Readers
Special Offer for Printed Matter’s Readers on Vallentine Mitchell’s Books Until September 4th our readers can...
Surviving the Ghetto
Serena di Nepi, Sopravvivere al ghetto. Per una storia sociale della comunità ebraica nella Roma del...