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Books February 10, 2026

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…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

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”. …

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Essays March 17, 2013

Hidden in Plain Sight

As it often happened in the past,  among this year’s initiatives to commemorate Yom Hashoah, there...

Books March 31, 2012

Threads and Traces

Carlo Ginzburg, Trad, John Tedeschi and Ann C. Tedeschi, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, University...

Books March 30, 2012

Mussolini and Fascism

John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, Princeton University Press, 1972 Mark Weber...

Books March 29, 2012

The Enemy of the New Man

Lorenzo Benadusi, The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy, University of Wisconsin Press,...

Books March 29, 2012

A European Memory?

Magorzata Pakier, Bo Stråth, A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, 2010...