We have a blockbuster Italian edition of #RivetingReviews this month, our first country focus edition. A year after I launched #RivetingReviews with my reading of Elena Ferrante’
Over three days this summer, before the unmasking of the identity of Italy’s most famous writer, Elena Ferrante, I sat down on our terrace in Italy to read and review for you Fer
The latest novel from one of Italy’s most prolific and popular contemporary writers appears on its surface to be a fantastical romance. An eighteen-year-old woman arrives at a co
No Picnic on Mount Kenya is neither a war memoir nor the travel log of an exotic mountaineering expedition; neither history pure and unimpeachable, nor a novel where the imaginatio
Sicily – as anyone who has read (or watched) the exploits of Inspector Montalbano will well know – is a land obsessed with its wine and food, populated by charming, eccentric 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 from home and further afield. We plunge
Earthquake noun 1: a shaking or trembling of the earth that is volcanic or tectonic in origin 2: fig. upheaval (Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Most of us won’t have experi
In Italian, Emanuele Trevi’s Something Written is a spectacular centaur of a book – part essay, part novel – about the agrodolce vita, the sweet and sour life, of Rome in the
