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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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Books March 29, 2009

Disciplining the Holocaust

Karyn Ball, Disciplining the Holocaust. Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, SUNY Press, 2008 Disciplining the Holocaust is...

Books March 29, 2009

From Empathy to Denial

Meir Litvak, Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press,...

Books March 29, 2009

Blooming Through the Ashes

Clifford Chanin and Aili McConnon, Blooming Through the Ashes: An International Anthology of Violence and the...

Books March 29, 2009

From Florence

Diogo Ramada Curto, Eric Dursteler, Julius Kirshner, Francesca Trivellato, From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond,...