Family and Complicated Yearning in Maria Giura’s If We Still Lived Where I Was Born
Maria Giura followed her first collection of poems, What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera…
Reviews
A Review of Diane Pacitti’s Between Two States: An Italo-Scots Story
Between Two States: An Italo-Scots Story (Troubador, 2025; 359 pp) is Diane Pacitti’s…
Guy Rodgers’ New Book Chooses Not to Forget
What We Choose to Forget (2026) documents the third leg of a personal journey of…
Reflections on Dying Times by Darlene Madott
Dying Times (Exile Editions, 2021) and its recent Italian language iteration, Il…
Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New
Joseph Maviglia’s debut verse collection, Movietown, appeared in 1989, 36 years ago.…
In Laura’s Uncovering, John Calabro Weaves a Tale of Two Eras
In Laura’s Uncovering (Ekstasis 2024), Toronto author John Calabro has crafted a…
Love and War in Genni Gunn’s The Cipher
With The Cipher (Signature Editions 2024, 239 p.), Genni Gunn has written a masterful…
Delusions of Empire: A Review of Francesco Filippi’s But We Built Roads for Them
One of the ironies of the Italic-skippered “discoveries” of the Caribbean and the…
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…
She Deserves to Be Happy: The Illusion of Choice in Michaela Di Cesare’s Extra/Beautiful/U
Michaela Di Cesare’s new play, Extra/Beautiful/U, premiered at Montreal’s Centaur…