A Stroll Through Mark Frutkin’s The Walled Garden
While hoeing his garden one day – so the story goes – Saint Francis of Assisi was…
Review
Exposing the Soft Underbelly of the Legal System: A Review of Darlene Madott’s Winners and Losers
I approached Winners and Losers, Darlene Madott’s latest literary offering, with high…
Poetry with Purpose: A Review of George Elliott Clarke’s J’Accuse
In his latest book, J’Accuse, Poems Versus (Exile Editions, 2021) George Elliott Clarke…
Review of Italian Immigration in the American West – 1870-1940, by Kenneth Scambray
Among the features of Prof Kenneth Scambray’s new book, Italian Immigration in the…
Under the Shadow of Mortality: Review of Dying Times by Darlene Madott
Darlene Madott’s latest book of fiction, her eighth, might be titled Dying Times (Exile…
Yearning for Hopeful Resolutions: A Review of Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli’s Pigeon Soup & Other Stories
Since the first acts of creation the roots of civilization have been grounded in the…
Francesco Filippi’s Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good
Because Adolf Hitler is the stark monster of 20th-century history, a diabolical warlord…
To Make a Bridge: Antonia Facciponte’s Poetic Debut
In the beginning there is a bridge, and we are standing beneath it, “eyelids sutured /…
The Thin Line Between Good and Evil
Captivating and evocative, the graphic memoir Patria: Crescere in tempo di Guerra (The…
Exploring the Depths of Loss and Hope, Grief and Resilience
For over 35 years Gianna Patriarca has been writing sensitive ethno-centric poetry about…