Found in Translation: A New Collection Celebrates Italian Queer Poet Dario Bellezza
The resurrection of Dario Bellezza has been more than half a century in the making. The…
Writings
The Nuptial Cloths
Gramma Stella was 14½ when her mother told her that Giuseppe Monardo had asked for her.…
The Wine Cellar
“All of it?” Saverio asked again. “All of it,” came the answer from the other end…
Adrift
On the 10th of June, 1940, the same day Italy entered the war and invaded southern…
The Courtyard
Clara and Cosimo finally reached Via Plebiscito number 80, the intersecting street name…
Casa
It’s 1964, Montreal. And a photograph shows me taking my first steps in my…
Autumn
The wind brings cool air and swirling leaves falling gracefully to the ground, covering…
Remembering Corrado Paina
A Collage of Impressions, curated by George Elliott Clarke Among Toronto’s cold,…
A Delicious Sausage Scandal
They say you should never see how the sausage is made. Too bad, because it would have…
The Elegant Complexity of Oranges
“Did you like Toronto when you first arrived here?” “Never,” she replies in her…