Where are sociologists when we need them?
We are facing a new world: in recent months, the pandemic, the shortcomings of our political...
Essays
Legitimizing Fascism Through the Holocaust?
The reception of the TV miniseries Perlasca: un eroe italiano in Italy. As the Holocaust becomes increasingly...
Images of Rebirth and the DP Camps in Southern Puglia
The section of the UNRRA archive about refugees in Italy is filled with hundreds of thousands of documents....
A Note From a Refugee of 75 Years Ago
While browsing the files of the UNRRA archive looking for data on the DP camps at...
La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana
At first glance and especially from a certain distance, Amelia Rosselli, reclining in her rocker on...
Never Again What?
On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking One hundred years ago Primo Levi was...
Stateless: A Russian Childhood in Fascist Italy
Childhood – growing up in Italy 1925-39 Marita Dresner In 1924, when I was born in...
Weightless
… our poor body, so vulnerable to swords, to guns and to viruses, is space-proof. Republished...
Defoe as a Possible Model
The structure of History, a Novel, departs substantially from Morante’s previous novels and poses some interesting...
Cinema as Archive
Amos Gitai once told me: “When the credits scroll down at the end of a screening,...