Other Works

For all works by Christopher Winner that are not within the Area 51 or Boyhood Empire categories.

Quo Vadis, Italia Nostra?

By Christopher P. Winner | February 1st, 2008

Nearly 40 percent of familes can't cover monthly costs, a shattering statistic.

Author Curzio Malaparte's vanity shows through in a previously unpublished 1949 correspondence.

Italy's 'hooligans' may reflect social disenchantment, but they're also a subculture of rules and protocols.

To appreciate America’s self-involved gusto — its “great hugeness,” as Jack Kerouac once put it — means accepting ruined attention span.

The left is notoriously unstable. Differences are deeper than alikeness.

"The Italian scene lacks what's accepted as normal professionalism in most places..."

Silvio Berlusconi is Italy's walking antidote to political narcolepsy.

My hair flapped in the wind. I was King of Italy. Briefly.

Andrea Lee's Italian hot-blooded romance is all well and good, so long as you don't care about details.

Italy has conscripted Keats, Goethe, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James... and George Clooney.

Megan K. Williams strikes all the right chords in her adroit collection of stories about life in Rome.

Twenty-first century Tirana is retro on rocket fuel — but things are looking up.