I dream en route from St. Petersburg, Mississippi to St. Louis, Florida. My vampire lovers are precariously situated in a novel by James Hannaham. More numbers of us are vampires than originally thought. All of us. You can tell by the loose and missing skin of our teeth. Our outfits were cut out ski
If you have ever found yourself wandering round the Old Town of Florence in the small hours of the night and detected a delicious aroma emanating from some unidentifiable source in an obscure backstreet, you should know that you have just taken your first step into the world of secret Florence. By s
A friend wrote to me that she’d been craving potato pancakes for a few days. Which reminded me that Hanukkah is coming, even though the friend didn’t have that in mind, because she does not have Jewish roots and anyway who doesn’t like potato pancakes? But for me they are latkes, and if it’s
On 9th July 2021, at the start of the fourth wave of the pandemic in Italy, almost five hundred workers employed by the GKN Automotive plant in Campi Bisenzio just outside Florence, receive emails informing them they have been fired and the factory will be shut down. The plant produces axle shafts f
The Society of Authors has announced six shortlists for its annual Translation Prizes. Sharing a total prize fund worth £15,000, the winners – along with the winner of the TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation from the Hebrew – will be announced in an online celebration on Wednesday 8 Feb
