There is a lot to admire in this panoramic novel, with its decades-long sweep from the Holocaust to the post-World War Two geopolitical landscape. It is both a wide-screen view of
A Conversation with Jamie Richards, Winner of the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose for Mariosa Castaldi’s The Hunger of Women (And Other Stories, 2023) CB:
The title is one of the only things about this extraordinary novel that is self-explanatory. It is about women’s hunger for recognition, for love, for autonomy, for a role.
“A girl is a jug: you break her, you take her.” This opening phrase tells us so much about this moving novel, set in rural Sicily in 1961 and based on real historical events. I
Our guest Italianist this month is Clarissa Botsford who interviews the celebrated Italian author Igiaba Scego. From rising star and award-winning novelist Scego – the author, jo
From rising star and award-winning novelist Igiaba Scego – the author, journalist and researcher, born in Rome to family of Somali ancestry – comes The Colour Line, winner of t
Tonight is Already Tomorrow immerses you in one of the darkest periods of Italian, and world, history. The novel owes its power to Lia Levi’s steadfast focus on the lives of an o
How to write about a man best known for telling his own story? Today, Primo Levi is viewed as one of our most important witnesses of Nazi atrocities. Writing in what Philip Roth de
‘New Italians’, ‘blended Italians’, ‘migrant literature’ – quite rightly, these categories are rejected by writers placed within them. There is no one-size-fits-all d
Romans ‘have always been quite sure about the precise location where God placed the point of a compass to design the world’, says Marco Lodoli (Islands-New Islands, tr. H. Camp
