The Novel of Ferrara
Introduction by Jamie McKendrick to his translation of The Novel of Ferrara (W.W. Norton & Co.,...
Essays
The People Next Door
As long as we live in this house there is no need for Stolpersteines, we don’t...
Advertising the Self: Formiggini’s Talking Postcards
In an era in which advertising was not yet an industry but rather an incipient trade...
A chemist’s book changed John Barnett’s life.
The graphic artist’s Carbon illustrates an element’s journey from a star to his brain We are...
Aldo Braibanti: The Scandal of the Imagination
A modern anarchist outlines a new ecological horizon where man renounces the idea of primacy...
The State, the Church, and the Constitution.
Piero Calamandrei’s statement at the Constitutional Assembly, March 1947 Two years after the liberation of Italy,...
A Memory of Le Murate
I was released from Le Murate three days ago. In my section, there was an inmate...
Memorial Stones
The complex and often elusive workings of memory (including the memory and memorialization of the Shoah)...
Where are sociologists when we need them?
We are facing a new world: in recent months, the pandemic, the shortcomings of our political...
Legitimizing Fascism Through the Holocaust?
The reception of the TV miniseries Perlasca: un eroe italiano in Italy. As the Holocaust becomes increasingly...