We have a blockbuster Italian edition of #RivetingReviews this month, our first country focus edition. A year after I launched…
Oct 2016
Over three days this summer, before the unmasking of the identity of Italy’s most famous writer, Elena Ferrante, I sat…
The latest novel from one of Italy’s most prolific and popular contemporary writers appears on its surface to be a…
No Picnic on Mount Kenya is neither a war memoir nor the travel log of an exotic mountaineering expedition; neither…
Sicily – as anyone who has read (or watched) the exploits of Inspector Montalbano will well know – is a…
Franco Nasi’s Translator’s Blues is a down-to-earth piece of writing, mixing the Italian translator’s views on his trade with stories…