Valse triste (‘Sad Waltz’) is a haunting but short orchestral piece by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius that comforts two…
April 2022 – The Italian Riveter
Whenever an author has already made their mark with an impressive, prizewinning novel, you dread their subsequent books, out of…
‘Hummingbird’ is the nickname given to this novel’s protagonist, Marco Carrera, by his mother when he was a small, beautiful…
‘I write against democracy’, begins Michela Murgia, which rather grabs you by the throat as beginnings go. What follows is,…
The original Italian title of Claudia Durastanti’s novel is a lot less ingenious than its English one, but much more…
Nestled on the banks of the Adige River near the meeting point of Switzerland, Austria, and Italy, is the village…