La Storia
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…
-
Invited to Think
Read More -
The Printshop at Bookhouse
Read More -
La Storia
Read More -
Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
Read More -
QUARTO STATO
Read More -
Bookhouse Musings: A Table
Read More -
Thruth and the Holocaust
Read More -
An Act of Faith
Read More -
Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
Read More -
On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
Read More
Features
Thruth and the Holocaust
“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”. …
Hatching the Cobra
Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…
Latest Articles
The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
Mauro Canali, The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini: The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime, Palgrave 2024 On June 10, 1924, Giacomo Matteotti, a young member of the Italian Parliament and Secretary…
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Edith Bruck’s Short Stories
Edith Bruck, This Darkness Will Never End, Paul Dry Books, 2025, Translated by Jeanne Bonner | 187 pp. In 1944, at the age of 13, Edith Bruck was deported to…
Swahili Lit Festival
As Primo Levi’s book is becoming available to Swahili readers, we would like to welcome on these pages news about Swahili literature, translation, book publishing and literary festivals. This interview…
Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
Historiography in Motion: Jews and State Building
A new book will be presented at Bookhouse on March 18th. Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond. Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano…
The War Fronts of Helena Salem
Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe 2025 for playing Eunice Paiva in the film “I’m Still Here.” Eunice was the wife of the politician Rubens Paiva, kidnapped and…