Translated by K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach. "My name is Milan because my mother adored books by Milan Kundera. But since her brother, named Misha, had been killed in a concentration camp, my mother always called me Misha and that is how I became Mish...
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LAST STOP ON THE 6 is the return of the prodigal daughter to a world of long-buried hurts, political complexities, and female resilience. Dunn introduces characters of all possessing questions for which there are no easy answers - only the slow and ...
Fiction. Italian American Studies. Translated by Zachary Scalzo. Marino Magliani is an original, wild writer. When Magliani writes—he actually paints, sculpts, films. All your senses are stimulated. You will read this novel, in the magnificent trans...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. "Janine Certo is a poet of grief and joy who searches inward and outward to find the transcendent meaning of 'house and universe.' Hers is a rare achievement: a philosopher's intelligence at work in...
Silvana La Spina gives voice to Penelope and provides her with an apt forum to narrate her story of abuse and manipulation - despite her royal status. As other queens, from Mary Stuart to Marie Antoinette, her side of the story deserves to be imagin...
Fiction. Italian American Studies. Mike Fiorito shoots the brief documentary tales of THE HATED ONES in a vivid black and white, bringing to life a "Basketball Diaries"-like world of ne'er-do-wells growing up on the wrong side of whatever tracks sep...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Essay. Edited by Michael Gilmartin. "The answer [Eugenio Colorni's, to a question of Ursula Hirschman's on the existence of 'concentric circles' in explanations of reality] is this: that the philosophical illnes...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. It is not an exaggeration that espresso is at the core of Italian culture and history. Millions of espresso drinkers around the world attempt to capture a special "made in Italy" feeling in th...
Fiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother—who pines for the 1950s Brooklyn Italian community she grew up in—fears he lacks commi...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. First published in Italy in 1982 and available to only a handful of scholars in the US, Boelhower's classic study IMMIGRANT AUTOBIOGRAPHY in the United States led the way in identifying a new ...
Fiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. Marie Genovese looks out from her apartment window above the Five & Ten and wonders how she'll save the failing store she's inherited from her mother. In a historical moment overshadowed by fear, economic...
Fiction. Italian Studies. In the spirit of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan stories, PUZZLE follows a young couple during Italy's infamous period known as the "Anni di Piombo," or "Years of Lead." Sebastiano and Maria Clara meet at a 1970s rock concert, ...