The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba
World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil …
Category Archives: Fiction
Johnny The Partisan — Fighting in the Hills of Asti and Alba, Italy
The French resistance to the Nazis in WW II was much celebrated after the war. Whatever their actual resistance and …
Touring Italy In Books
Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction, …
The Tartar Steppe: An Italian Novel about Wishing for War
A man joins the army and dreams of glory. He is sent to a distant northern frontier post watching for any …
“Not So Quiet…” — A Woman Writes of War
War writing is almost by definition writing by men about men. It also, almost universally, centers on the climactic moments, the …
“Like Family” by Paolo Giordano, New from Italy
Paolo Giordano, an Italian particle physicist and author of several acclaimed novels treats us to his latest, in Anne Milano …
“The Human Body” by Paolo Giordano, Italian Soldiers in Afghanistan
Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body comes with encomiums such as ” a stunning exploration of war,” “a great novel of …
“Honeydew” — Short Fiction by Edith Pearlman
Some writers are masters of the short story, others won’t touch them with a ten-foot pen; some readers graze on them …
“Eyes Full of Empty” — Jérémie Guez, in Noirish Paris
If walking the dark streets of Paris, mayhem around every corner, learning skulduggery from residents of the banlieues, is your idea …
“The Dream of My Return” by Horacio Castellanos Moya: Droll Paranoia from El Salvador
Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras (1957), grew up in El Salvador, went into exile in Mexico and now teaches …
Molly’s Gift — A Story
When the car began its turn and the headlights moved into our eyes I was there. A halo rose through …
Tigers on the Tenth Day — Fabled Syria
Zakaria Tamer (b 1931 in Damascus) has been in exile from his native Syria in England since the early 1980s where …