Italy

Prose by Any Other Name

By Elena Ferrante,

From interviews conducted by journalists and readers with Elena Ferrante since 2003. The correspondence is included in Frantumaglia, a collection of Ferrante’s papers that was published last month by Europa…

The Lightness

By Catherine Meurisse,

Francophony

By Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, Sergio Della Sala,

From a paper by Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, and Sergio Della Sala that was published in the August 2016 issue of the scientific journal Cortex. Read More

Capri #8

By Olivo Barbieri,

High Concept

By Hans Ulrich Obrist,

From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

Vulgar Materialism

Translated by Anthony Lydgate

From an online petition submitted in April to Piero Fassino, the mayor of Turin, requesting that he persuade the Spanish multinational NH Hotels not to name its new four-star location…

Anna Maria

By Luciana Castellina, Patrick Camiller,

By Luciana Castellina, from Discovery of the World: A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini, out this month from Verso Books. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Camiller.

Showing a Little Leg

By Dan Keane,

My leg was not what Ellen Altfest had imagined when she walked out of the Louvre’s 2008 exhibition of work by the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna knowing that she had…

Sirocco

By Michael Christopher Brown,

Clowning Achievement

By Bernhard Paul, Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer

From an open letter written in March by Bernhard Paul, founder and director of Germany’s Circus Roncalli, to Peer Steinbrück, the Social Democratic candidate for German chancellor, who in February…

A Question of Circumstances

By Luigi Pintor, Translated by Gregory Elliott

From Servabo: A Fin de Siècle Memoir, first published in Italian in 1991, and included in Memories from the Twentieth Century, edited by Alberto Toscano, a collection of three of…

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