To Seize the World: A Review of Carmela Circelli’s Love and Rain
Carmela Circelli’s Love and Rain (Guernica, 2023) is a beautifully written novel often…
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More Lasting than Bronze: Pasquino Introduces Himself
Benvenuto a Roma! Welcome to Rome! If you want to enjoy your visit, shut your guidebook…
Flash Fiction at Accenti Festival Considers Italy in the World – Part II
The inaugural Accenti Magazine International Festival of the Arts, held at the University…
Italy’s Colonial Past Amid the Lies, Racism, and Selective Amnesia
Excerpts from But We Built Roads for Them: The Lies, Racism, and Amnesia that Bury…
Orphans
Excerpt from Cold City, a graphic novel inspired by a true, unsolved crime in Toronto of…
An Italian-Style Field Trip
After our hilarious Sunday service, we arrived home just as the phone rang. It was Mom…
To Market, To Market – the Mercato Experience in Italy
The Mercato is an Italian tradition that goes back centuries. Once a week, travelling…
Where Italy’s Most Famous Are Buried
Every year millions of tourists visit the city of Florence and flock to the Uffizi…
Severed
The floor is cold. We lie on gray cement, eroded by a decade or more of kids playing mini…
Letters of Introduction? Lear, Gissing and Douglas’s Travels to Calabria
For centuries, letters of introduction were considered almost as essential as passports…