The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …
At first glance and especially from a certain distance, Amelia Rosselli, reclining in her rocker on...
On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking One hundred years ago Primo Levi was...
Centro Primo Levi, has recently received a wonderful gift: a rare first edition of Primo Levi’s...
Childhood – growing up in Italy 1925-39 Marita Dresner In 1924, when I was born in...
Sandro Gerbi in Conversation with Alessandro Cassin AC: You have vast experience in biographical writing of...
… our poor body, so vulnerable to swords, to guns and to viruses, is space-proof. Republished...
The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity. This introduction to the book by...
The structure of History, a Novel, departs substantially from Morante’s previous novels and poses some interesting...