The making of a translator
Things we long for sometimes seem to come true by chance. Or maybe it is a question of choice and [...]
Things we long for sometimes seem to come true by chance. Or maybe it is a question of choice and [...]
This is a cautionary tale, though it may not seem like one at first. In fact, at first it will [...]
Light rain had fallen for most of a virtually sleepless stormy night a few weeks ago. I got up around [...]
This I know: the picture was taken in 1941 by a Rome street photographer while roaming through the city's famous [...]
Toward the end of June 1990, I drove to the top of the Serra di Spigolizzi, in Salento, to visit [...]
July was the month. I used to wait for it, yearn for it, dream and daydream of it. July was [...]
Now, I know you’ll never believe it. And I can't blame you if you don’t. I can hardly believe it [...]
The spreading of manipulated information has been a constant throughout most of human history. Now, however, in the social media [...]
Italy is the country, as someone used to say, of one thousand belfries, where “belfry” stands for home town. In [...]
Reading some of the international press coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, one can come across any number of diverging opinions. [...]
In times of crisis people have always been able to find unexpected solutions. In the past, and especially here, in [...]
It is difficult to say what will change in Britain and Europe after Brexit. It is to be expected that [...]