Review: The Honoured Society by Norman Lewis
How the Mafia returned to power in post-war Italy
Review: Naples ‘44 by Norman Lewis
“Food, for the Neapolitans, comes even before love, and its pursuit is equally insatiable and ingenious”.
Review: Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot
How Italian democracy died
Review: The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The aesthete who lavished praised on war
Review: An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
What is it to be good in a malevolent world?
Review: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
Humanity and light in life’s darkest decade
Review: Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
How the mafia infiltrated the Italian government
Review: Ravenna by Judith Herrin
The glittering Adriatic city where East met West
Review: M by Peter Robb
Searching for counter-reformation Rome’s most electric artist
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