According to the UN Refugee Agency there are currently eighty-two million refugees traversing the globe*. Almost half of these refugees…
April 2022 – The Italian Riveter
Sandro Penna (1906-1977) was openly gay and his poems reflect that. He is led by Eros, his poems full of…
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By the time he died in 2019, Sicily’s great crime writer had produced twenty-eight Inspector Salvo Montalbano mysteries, which were…
Valse triste (‘Sad Waltz’) is a haunting but short orchestral piece by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius that comforts two…
Whenever an author has already made their mark with an impressive, prizewinning novel, you dread their subsequent books, out of…