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UTHealth surgeon is among the few in the nation to treat rare disease-threatening pregnancies
About 27 weeks into her pregnancy, Marisa Resendez had a decision to make. She had been diagnosed with vasa previa, the dangerous placement of fetal blood vessels near the cervix."If my waters break or the baby goes…
SARAH VINE: Rape victims in Ukraine know what a woman is, Sir Keir
It's fair to say that those Oscars will be remembered, even if it's for all the wrong reasons. But this week, I remembered another Oscar ceremony, a little over 60 years ago, when Sophia Loren won Best Actress.Her role, in the dark but…
Ganjasar Monastery Complex – Albanian Christian Heritage of Azerbaijan – AZERTAC
Baku, March 29, AZERTAC
There are a large number of monuments on the territory of the former Azerbaijani land of Karabakh, which includes monasteries and temples, churches and mosques, a fortress, caravanserais, bridges, baths and houses.…
Indian Screenwriter Javed Akhtar Explains How He Changed Bollywood: ‘We Had No Fear Or…
Kolkata: Javed Akhtar, along with his screenplay mate Salim Khan, set the entire Hindi film industry on a cruise down a hitherto uncharted track in the history of commercial cinema in India when the archetypal villain Gabbar Singh in…
Shirvan National Park – AZERTAC
Baku, March 19, AZERTAC
Shirvan National Park, established in 2003, is located on the territory of Salyan and Neftchala districts of Azerbaijan, covering an area of 55 hectares.
The park, which is about 20 to 27 meters below sea level,…
“Aunt Elsa took me home to my parents because I was a sleepwalker. I wanted to have more children”…
for Candida morphillo
The actress who has hundreds of films to her credit: I was a dancer and I had no passion for the theater
According to her, her life is full of failures, but entertaining, as well as some regrets. but after, Laura…
Pasolini and Truffaut on display at FICCI 61 in Cartagena
As part of its cinematographic mission to highlight the classics of the big screen, for the 61 edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), two great masters will be presented, with four feature!-->!-->…
Who are the top 10 scorers of all time? Cristiano Ronaldo one step away from equaling the record
The Lionel Messi vs. Cristiano Ronaldo debate has raged for over a decade, and the duo's remarkable records are frequently talked about.
But although the pair have dominated…
A conversation with the man who played Pasolini’s Christ – Fra Noi
There have been countless cinematic interpretations of the books of the Bible, but few have stood the test of time. One that qualifies as a classic is Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 "Il Vangolo Secondo Matteo" (The Gospel According to Saint…
Italy celebrates 100 years of Pasolini
Italy pays homage to Pasolini with exhibitions, events and new publications.Italy will mark the centenary of the birth of director, poet, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini with a series of special events in 2022.Rome will…
Women in my fiction
I never really tried to categorize women in my novels and short stories. Last week, Alain Padilla, who collects and edits my next collection of essays, suggested that I do so.
It was my mother who influenced me…
Culture of Mallorca: Hotel Formentor
Developers have completely emptied part of the Formentor hotel, leaving only the exterior walls of the building.
The hotel, which has neoclassical and Art Deco elements, opened in 1929 with a big party and the guests had to travel by boat…
Majorca Culture: Hotel Formentor
The developers have completely drained part of the Hotel Formentor, leaving only the outer walls of the building.
The hotel, which features neoclassical and Art Deco elements, opened in 1929 with a big party and the guests had to travel by…
A memory of Robert Loggia on the anniversary of his death
Six years ago the Italian-American actor died in Los Angeles, performing films such as "SOB" by Blake Edwards, "Scarface" by Brian De Palma, "L'onore dei Prizzi" by John Huston, "Double cut "by Richard Marquand," Big "by Penny…
Joyce P. Barrett, 93 – Page 1 Publications
Joyce P. Barrett, 93, of East Grand Forks, MN, passed away on November 21, 2021 at Valley Senior Living / Woodside Village with her family by her side.Joyce Patricia (Aardahl) Barrett was born on April 5, 1928 in Whitman, North Dakota to…
“El Chuncho”, the crazy game against the backdrop of the Mexican revolution
"El Chuncho" (Sorted 1967) by Damiano Damiani. Carlotta movies
Chanshu It represents an important date in the history of Italian cinema. The 1967 film Damiano Damiani opened a series of Western films depicting the Mexican Revolution as…
The best films that will turn 50 in 2021
While the accusations against Woody Allen haven't completely spoiled the experience of watching his films for you, there is still joy to be found in his work. When aliens in "Stardust Memories" from the 1980s tell Woody Allen…
GUEST COLUMN: Books in the Sarnia Library Helped Me Adjust to a New Life
Delia De Santis
Growing up in Italy, we didn't have any books except a prayer book.
Delia De Santis
Sometimes my mother would borrow a book from school and read to us. But we couldn't keep it for more than a week and couldn't…
Fintan O’Toole and modern Ireland
WHICH of our European neighbors do you think you know the least? I'm afraid to start to think that in my case it's the Republic of Ireland.
The reason is that I am currently reading Fintan O'Toole's new book, his…
The Party of the People’s Republic was created in Adana
Party of the People's Republic
September 26 is the 269th (270th day in leap years) of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days remaining until the end of the year is 96.
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On September 26, 1920,…
Sydney artist bathed in the creative light of Italy
She quickly made friends, starting with the consular official of the Australian Embassy, ââBob Hincksman, also a painter. Within a week, she was invited to a weekend in a villa in Lazio, north of Rome.…
Chic destinations making waves in the Mediterranean
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Menorca is callingThanks to the arrival of the powers of the art world Iwan and Manuela Wirth, Menorca is everyone's favorite Balearic this summer.…
Emmy Awards sold to 150 territories by Rainmaker Content
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International Distributor Rainmaker Content sold the Television academy's 73rd Emmy Awards in more than 150 territories. New buyers include AMC Networks International for Central Europe, Catchplay Plus for Indonesia…
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Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist, affirms: âYou become a writer, but you have to be born…
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Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist, affirms: âYou…
Ginsberg’s Karma: Documentary film on the discovery of India by a hippie
New documentary shows how poet Allen Ginsberg started the backpacker revolution Allen Ginsberg in Varanasi, India, in 1963The 1950s saw filmmakers like Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini come to India, but it was really from the early…
How I write: For inspiration, CK Stead loves Dickensian spirit
Marti Friedlander / TipsCK Stead says that the quality of the prose, the drafting skill is the most important to him.The third and final volume of his memoir by award-winning poet and novelist CK Stead, What you did with it, covers leaving…
Chicago Humanities Festival: Jhumpa Lahiri and Jennifer Scappettone discuss native languages and…
When we speak more than one language and switch from one to the other with any degree of frequency, we come across them: words that do not quite translate, because they are not just a word and a feeling, something intimately linked to the…
Dialogues: Jhumpa Lahiri and Jennifer Scappettone discuss mother tongues, displacement and the verb…
When we speak more than one language and switch from one to the other with any degree of frequency, we come across them: words that do not quite translate, because they are not just a word and a feeling, something intimately linked to…
Jhumpa Lahiri: “I have always lived in a kind of linguistic exile” | Books
Jhumpa Lahiri's third novel is the triumphant culmination of her 20-year love affair with Italian, an obsession that led her to settle in Rome with her family almost 10 years ago. She gave up all reading in English and began to write…
Cuban artists and intellectuals commemorate 50th anniversary of poet Herberto Padilla’s…
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Promotional video for Padilla's Shadow
Courtesy: The San Isidro Movement and 27N…
6 book recommendations from Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is the author of Telex From Cuba, The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers, which the New York magazine has called one of the new classics of the 21st century. His new collection of essays, The Hard Crowd, brings together 20…
Grim Submission – WSJ
When "The conformist" Opened in American theaters 50 years ago this month, its director, Bernardo Bertolucci, was at the peak of his career. Precocious, prolific, he had been recognized as a poet when he was still a teenager and, at the…
Vision Distribution relies on Atlas and Lei mi parla ancora
02/25/2021 - The Italian international sales company offers the EFM new or recently launched titles in Italy ranging from drama to comedyThis article is available in French.Vision Distribution will be present at the European Film Market…
Vision Distribution bets on Atlas and Lei mi parla ancora
02/25/2021 - The European film market will see the Italian sales agent tout unreleased or recently released titles in Italy, ranging from dramas to comediesAtlas by Niccolò CastelliVision Distribution will be present in Berlin…
Formentor Hotel construction in Mallorca
In 1929, the magazine La Nostra Terra announced that a "casal de regust mallorquà bell" had just been built in Formentor and a year later, the Ordinas printing press produced the brochure âFormentor in…
Baba Betar: Art radio and innovative sound archives
Baba Betar, a contemporary art and sound archive radio station, began its journey in March 2020, when the entire country was shut down due to the pandemic. It airs daily from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. during this year's "Chobi Mela", on the…
How I Spend It: Diane von Furstenberg on Love Letters
To watch Diane von Furstenberg talk about her personal tastes from her Connecticut home, tune in to the FT Weekend Digital Festival at 3:40 p.m. GMT on March 19. Click on here buy tickets for the festivalI was fortunate enough to…
Why PEN Nicaragua is suspending its operations
The state demands that we register as "foreign agents" and none of us, writers committed to freedom, accepts this imposition.
By Gioconda Belli * (Confidential)
HAVANA TIMES - For several years, 2014 to be exact, I have been the…
Walter Benjamin, Voltaire and Mozart: art historian Arturo Galansino on his cultural influences
Arturo Galansino is the director of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
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If you could live with…
art historian Arturo Galansino on his cultural influences
If you could live with just one piece of art, what would it be?Very difficult question! I could choose a different board every day for the rest of my life ... Today I would choose Whistle (1762) by George Stubbs, one of my favorite…
Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli on the adaptation of “The Time of Indifference” by Alberto…
In "The Time of Indifference", the Italian filmmaker Leonardo Guerra Serà gnoli adapts the 1929 novel by the renowned author Alberto Moravia about a once rich family in decline but unable to give up appearances.Transposed to…
“Il Conformista” by Bernardo Bertolucci: 50 years later
The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of a historic Italian film, âIl Conformistaâ by Bernardo Bertolucci (1970). It is appropriate, in light of recent political events in America, to celebrate…
“Surprise and delight”: how a book by Toni Morrison from the Burnaby Public Library…
The book - Toni Morrison's 1970 novel The Bluest Eye - from the library in Burnaby, British Columbia, was found in the author's loft in New York City. Courtesy of Michelle Sinclair Colman Among the neat lines of books in Toni…
Loren’s cd sets Oscar gap record with new film – Variety – Lifestyle
(ANSA) - ROME, 2 NOV. --Sophia Loren could set a new record for the Oscar nominations gap if she gets a…
Cinema legend Sophia Loren: “It’s too early to remember”
"He knows me very well - every inch of my face, of my heart, of my soul." Sophia Loren talks about her son, Edoardo Ponti, who co-wrote and directed his next film, Life to come, his first film in six years. It's the perfect star…
Famous Shoreham Photographer Marilyn Stafford Celebrated in New Exhibition
Marilyn StaffordMarilyn Stafford - A retrospective of fashion from haute couture to ready-to-wear⦠From Paris in the 1950s to the 1970s Swinging London will take place from October 3 to December 31 at the Dimbola Museum…
Politics and Fiction and Other Letters to the Editor
No more politics, no more fictionFor the publisher:Your attractively crafted September 13 post on political novels might disappoint some readers for ultimately limiting themselves to so few of the great political novels of the past 100…
Hollywood’s cowardly surrender to blatant Chinese censorship
A few weeks ago, PEN America released a report on Hollywood, America's largest export industry with unmatched power over minds and hearts, and its loose relationship with China. PEN is a committed organization of…
Cambridge University interview with Italian author Dacia Maraini
The University of Cambridge offers the public the opportunity to interview a famous Italian writer at a live online event.
Today (Friday, September 4) at 5 p.m., the Cambridge University Italian Society is conducting a live online…
Andreas Petrosiants on Il Decameron by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1971)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, He Decameron (The Decameron), 1971, 35 mm, color, sound, 111 minutes.
BEFORE THE LIFT, almost all acts had…
The continued influence of “The Conformist”
July 1, 2020by JB | VENICEBORN IN 1941, Bernardo Bertolucci grew up in the cultural renaissance of post-war Italy. The years of the fascist regime were over; in the cinema, neorealism becomes eminent, while Italian chic invades the…
Top 5 movies: the best of streaming
Brigitte Bardot in Contempt.CONTEMPT (105 minutes) PGThis lavish 1963 adaptation of an Alberto Moravia novel is the closest that French enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard has come to emulate the Hollywood directors he idolized. The plot…
Italian beaches face the cold of the coronavirus
âThe season usually starts at Easter,â said Rocco Gambacurta, who chairs four generations of his family at Lido Azzurro beach club. "We will not be able to make up for two months of lost income. What…
The French actor in Godard’s “The contempt” was 94 years old – The Hollywood…
Michel Piccoli, the prolific French actor known for his leading roles in films such as Jean-Luc Godard Contempt and that of Luis Buñuel Beautiful day, is dead. He was 94 years old.
Piccoli's family announced…
‘1900’ is a crash course in Italian history and epic cinema
âLong live Stalin! "âVerdi is dead!These two proclamations, separated by a few minutes of screen and 44 years of Italian history, sound at the beginning of "1900", The luxuriously long and constantly…
The book prize should be awarded
I deeply respect the professional integrity of Kevin Saliba: it is quite clear that he puts all his heart and soul into his translations of difficult literary texts into Maltese.
But my unfailing respect does not prevent me from…
Reading moments that saved an often sour year
Even the writing on food in 2019 was a bit bruised. In Peter Orner's new collection of stories, âMaggie Brown & Others,â he wrote: âOnly human beings could have a party by boiling…
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06/12/2019 - The Italian-French co-production by Scirocco Films and Rosebud is filmed between Puglia and Senegal and tells the story of two African…
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Turkey commemorates famous photographer Ara Guler
ANKARATurkey celebrated the first anniversary of the death of ace photographer Ara Guler, fondly remembered as "the eye of Istanbul" on Thursday.Guler captured Istanbul in his black and white portraits which…
Sophia Loren Movies: 15 Best Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Although she rose to fame thanks in large part to her looks, the Italian superstar Sophie loren has more than proven her acting skills with a string of international hits and an Oscar for Best Actress. But how many of his titles…
“No language has power over another”: a PEN Ten interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
PEN Ten is PEN America's weekly interview series. This week in celebration of National Translation Month, Lily Philpott, PEN America's Head of Public Programs, speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, editor of the next…
Rediscover Natalia Ginzburg | The New Yorker
In a first short story by Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, it has just been reissued by New Directions, under the title "The dry heart(Translated by Frances Frenaye) - the narrator walks into her husband's office and finds him drawing. He…
Raj Kaur Khaira’s New Book Tells the Story of Famous and Under-Celebrated Women |…
Calcutta, Jul 19 (UNI) A woman will probably tell her compatriot's story better than a man. Despite famous authors like Lev Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee or Alberto Moravia diving deep into the female psyche,…
“The Penguins Book of Italian News” edited by Jhumpa Lahiri highlights hybridity
Everything Jhumpa Lahiri does is informed by his immersion in the Italian language a few years ago. As she tells it in the sumptuous and immense volume which she has just published, The Penguins Book of Italian News, in 2012, while still…
A powerful collection with many delicacies
Antonio Tabucchi contributes to a story of time warping. Tabucchi, a Tuscan writer, "made a Lahiri": he translated from Portuguese and then wrote books in that language. In its history, from its Italian period, it was perhaps influenced…
Paolo Di Paolo: Mondo Perduto – Announcements
An unprecedented exploration of the contradictions and hopes of Italy in the 1950s and 60s told through more than 250 images of the greats of the world of cinema, art, culture and fashion and ordinary people.
He was the most…
A Reader’s Guide to Airplanes, Trains and Automobiles | by Tim Parcs
Bridgeman PicturesHonoré Daumier : The first class car, 1864It is well known that the invention of railways increased book sales. Besides talking and looking out the window, what could you do on a long trip if not…
Opening of Italian and Romanian film festivals in Israel
Two festivals dedicated to films from the countries that have shaped contemporary cinema - Italy and Romania - are opening across Israel and will showcase their best recent films, as well…
Cinema Italia’s annual party – The Jerusalem Post
For the sixth year, fans of Italian cinema await the Cinema Italia festival, which kicks off across the country on April 4.Sixteen films will be screened in cinematheques across Israel:…
Italian opera classic gets a new translation
The first time I took the 1957 novel by Italian writer Elsa Morante "The Island of Arturo", in this new translation by Ann Goldstein, the talented translator of Elena Ferrante's novels into English, I put it back after 75 pages. Morante's…
Richard Gardner, Cold War envoy to warring Italy, dies at 91
Richard Gardner, who in the late 1970s served as US Ambassador to Italy amidst a period of political violence there and concern in Washington over the growing strength of the Italian Communist Party, died on February 16 at his home in…
look back at a year of magical reading
I realized after 52 weeks and 52 pounds, it's all about falling in love.
I didn't know it was going to be like this. When I stood in front of…
About Bertolucci: when can we separate good art from bad artists?
Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece in 1970 The conformist is an intense meditation on the link between violence, sex, fascism and sexual violence. Shot when Bertolucci was only 28, the film demonstrates an expressionistic use of blue and…
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) – Artforum International
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian author whose cinema ranged from island dramas to radical epics but who proved reliably rebellious, has died at the age of seventy-seven. After becoming a key figure in the…
Bernardo Bertolucci of the famous “Last Tango” died in Rome
By Crispian Balmer, Philip PullellaROME (Reuters) - Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris" shocked audiences with a notorious sex scene that returned to haunt him in his later years, died on…
University community mourns death of emeritus Italian professor Jan Kozma
LAWRENCE - The University of Kansas community mourns the death of Jan Kozma, professor emeritus of Italian, who died on November 9 at his home. She was 72 years old.
âProfessor Kozma was a dedicated scholar and teacher…
Famous Turkish photographer dies at 90
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Güler suffered a heart attack and…
The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia (1947)
"'I'm a whore,' I finally said out loud, to see what effect the words would have on me. They didn't seem to have any effect â.…
How movie vacation architecture means darker passions
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A dark day in the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No one cares whether Graham Greene, Jean-Paul Sartre or Alberto Moravia are members of any association of writers. In the Soviet Union, it's different. This explains the importance of what has now happened to Russia's most important and…
“The old books I turn to in the middle of the night when sleep is elusive”
I stand in front of my book shelves. There are books here that I have had since I was a child. Packaged and shipped in an old tin trunk from New Zealand 54 years ago. Their blankets are tattered,…
Nick Pinkerton on Chung Kuo — Cina by Michelangelo Antonioni (China)
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI ARRIVES IN CHINA IN MAY 1972, about seven hundred years after Marco Polo and a few months after Richard Milhous Nixon. The People's Republic of China, established in 1949, was then emerging…
Antifascism with a human face
A BOLD AND DANGEROUS FAMILY The remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons and their fight against fascism By Caroline Moorehead Illustrated. 432 pages. Harper / HarperCollins Publishers. $ 27.99."Each era has its own fascism,"…
Sushant Singh Rajput says he expected more from fame and fame
From theater to television to films, Sushant Singh Rajput has touched a wide range of mediums, straddling the worlds of art and entertainment. The actor talks about being a "foreigner" to Bollywood and missing "the fame and…
What’s in a name? The stories behind famous writers and their pseudonyms
From George Eliot to John le Carré, writers who reach out for the disguise or anonymity offered by a pseudonym are nothing new in the literary world. But the phenomenon has been brought back to the fore by the assiduous…
the Italian brothers who resisted Mussolini
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In 1929, Italy's most influential anti-fascist, Carlo Rosselli, founded the underground Justice and Freedom movement, then the…
Emma Reyes’ Book: A Memoir in Correspondence review – portrait of a painter’s…
AAccording to translator Daniel Alarcón in his introduction, even the existence of Emma Reyes' book is âmiraculousâ. She died in 2003, aged 84, in Bordeaux - an emigrant from her native…
Restarting is never easy: Giorgio Montefoschi
The initial trigger for a novel is usually a picture - of a place, of a woman, of a situation. For one that's about to be released in September, The body, it was two brothers sitting in the living room. The eldest (around…
A Bold and Dangerous Caroline Moorehead Family – Against the Duce
On the evening of June 9, 1937, Carlo Rosselli, an anti-fascist exile in France, and his younger brother Nello, a historian, are ambushed, shot and stabbed to death on a forest road near Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, a town thermal spa in…
So much Percival Everett blue is curvy and alluring
At 61, Percival Everett has perhaps the lowest profile of any great American novelist now in his prime. He has published more than two dozen works of fiction and…
“The Conformist” and the merits of a complex character study
Bernardo Bertolucci's âThe Conformistâ seems to mock everything he celebrates. It mocks the excesses of the interwar bourgeoisie while reveling in the beauty of 1930s Paris. It is one of the…
Surf and Sondheim: what’s going on in Josh Radnor’s mind
Speaking with actor Josh Radnor, now Off Broadway star in "The Babylon Line," is a discursive experience, his conversation interspersed with enthusiastic references to books, movies and music. Here are a few, in alphabetical order, that…
Sushant Singh Rajput to star in Alberto Moravia’s play
After blockbuster MS Dhoni - The Untold Story, hunk Sushant Singh Rajput is now going to do something different. Sushant brilliantly tried out for the role of Indian ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni in this biopic and the film was a smash…
Muhammad Ali was an artist who performed for himself
Muhammad Ali was not only the greatest athlete of the 20e Century â he was also the best thing that ever happened to writers. People on TV and radio loved him too, of course, as Ali possessed a performing genius, not to…
The Jewish inspiration of Elena Ferrante – The Forward
When Hitler traveled to Rome to meet Mussolini in 1938, Elsa Morante was standing by her window with a pot of boiling oil on the stove. The duo's parade route was going to pass just below her apartment, and she planned to throw the…
criticism Le Mépris – Jean-Luc Godard against marriage and cinema | Jean-Luc Godard
I first saw Contempt many years ago in an impression so washed out everything was pale pink; it was like contemplating an artifact from an immeasurable past. Watching the film now, with its Mediterranean reds and blues rediscovered in…
Review ‘The double life of Liliane’: A novel that mixes reality and fiction
(Grove / Atlantic) Lily Tuck's latest novel, "Liliane's double lifeIs a tight construction conveniently set up for easy deconstruction, as if it were an exercise given by Paul de Man at a seminar attended by the main character…
Alberto Moravia, the forgotten muse of the New Wave
These are the cold cases of literature, the missing and the presumed dead. It was the unlucky novels and stories that inspired films so successful that they almost completely eclipsed the originals. Some books resist the success of a…
September 26, 1990: death of the Italian writer Alberto Moravia
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San Francisco opera house hits with “Two Women”
SAN FRANCISCO - The world premiere production of a new opera based on a 1958 novel…
Review: San Francisco Opera’s “Two Women” Depicts the Horror of War Out Loud
Think of this opera as a love letter to Italian works in red sauce from the verism era of the late 19th century, such as "Pagliacci" or "Cavalleria Rusticana", which plunged into the dramas of the working class, restoring in sumptuous…
“Deux femmes” goes from novel and film to opera
San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti looks like a proud midwife, speaking about this week's world premiere of "Two Women" ("La Ciociara") at the War Memorial Opera House.
"It involves the Italian and American…
Angela’s Rome
Originally from the island of Sardinia, freelance travel writer Angela Corrias traveled the world, living as an expat and accumulating nomadic credit. Two years ago she decided to take root in the Eternal City, Rome.Always the type to…
Mad Peru by Mario Vargas Llosa
During the seventy-nine years of Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru has alternated dictatorship and democracy with the regularity that other countries know by simple passages from one political party to another. During his country's most violent…
“Agostino”, by Alberto Moravia – The Washington Post
Poet and critic Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as "a lengthy prose story that has something wrong with it." On the other hand, a short story - or short story or novelette or short novel - can be perfect. To use a musical…
“California” by Edan Lepucki, “Agostino” by Alberto Moravia and more
CALIFORNIABy Edan Lepucki393 pages. Little, Brown and company. $ 26.Post-apocalyptic novels remain stubbornly in fashion, and Edan Lepucki's "California" hits all the familiar notes. Cal and Frida are a couple living in the wilderness…