The war is finally encroaching on the village of Le Case in Tuscany in early winter, 1943. It is now occupied by German and Italian troops, as the allied advance into Italy gets ev
‘The truth of memory is strange, isn’t it? Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their
Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity claims to belong to a counter-tradition of fiction as an anti-story, of narratives transcending and transgressing the boundaries of authorship and reade
This is one of the most delightful books I’ve read for some time. It’s usual to refer to such things as ‘un-putdownable’, but the great pleasure of The Revolution of the Mo
A teacher of philosophy fascinated by quantum physics, the French author Jérôme Ferrari is the perfect person to write this autobiographical novel of Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901
Borgiamania All tours lead to Rome. In 2015, over 13 million people visited the Eternal City. 7 million visited Vaticanland, where every Wednesday the Pope drives out in his Pope-m
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD By Elena Ferrante Translated by Ann Goldstein Europa Editions September 2015 I believe that we will still be talking about ‘Elena Ferrante’ in decad
In June Europa Editions will publish Viola Di Grado‘s ‘The Hollow Heart’, translated by Antony Shugaar. In this courageous, inventive, and intelligent novel, Viol
