Waiting for Chrysanthemums, a Novel from the Grey Zone
Border towns can be grey zones with split identities, regions where loyalties are…
Reviews
Lives Entwined, Review of Sebastiano’s Vine by Carmelo Militano
“Why this story?” They are the first words of Sebastiano’s Vine by Carmelo…
Thunder Bay to LA: Dina Morrone’s Moose Play
From the evening of Friday, June 3 to the afternoon of Sunday, July 24, 2011, the…
Finding Rosa by Caterina Edwards, reviewed by Joseph Pivato
Caterina Edwards’ latest book, Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer’s, a…
A Theory of Everything
If someone were to ask me what Nino Ricci’s Governor General award-winning The Origin…
Da Vinci Decoded – Javier Sierra’s The Secret Supper
Leonardo da Vinci was a heretic, or at the very least he did not hold the Catholic…
In Search of Divine Connection
In The Honeymoon Wilderness (Mansfield, 2002), Pier Giorgio Di Cicco writes the kind of…
City of a Perilous Legacy
On June 10, 1940, and in the months following, while Canada was at war against Italy,…
Swearing on the Bible, Nino Ricci’s Testament
It was the ending, the final pages of Nino Ricci’s Testament (Doubleday, 2002;…