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Books April 11, 2026

A Note on My Quandary About Political Poetry

With an Attempted Translation of a Poem by Franco Fortini (original post).  Last October, Norman Finkelstein and Henry Weinfield posted on Norman’s poetry review website Restless Messengers an invitation to…

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…

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Essays March 26, 2007

A Tranquil Star?

Primo Levi: the Man and the Narrator In a passage of the Confessions, probably the most...