‘Hummingbird’ is the nickname given to this novel’s protagonist, Marco Carrera, by his mother when he was a small, beautiful…

The Italian Riveter
To find those millions of words, I had to cross the threshold of the broom cupboard that my father insisted…
Icame to Italian relatively late; some pleasures are worth deferring, or at least that’s what I tell myself. In 1985…
If you’re driving this way (though I’d recommend a train for the full experience – missed and late connections are…
The Adventures of Pinocchio vies with Le Petit Prince for the title of the world’s most-translated book after the Bible.…
‘I write against democracy’, begins Michela Murgia, which rather grabs you by the throat as beginnings go. What follows is,…