Pierre Vesperini An Open Letter in Support of Luciano Canfora Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is taking an eighty-one-year-old historian to court for having expressed an opinion on her politics. April 17, 2024
A. S. Hamrah Objects in Space at a Moment in Time Michael Mann’s biopic of Enzo Ferrari is suffused with a sense of death and loss. February 3, 2024
Jill Lepore The Everyman Library When my father died I inherited his library: tiny books, held in one hand, all bound in cloth, and smelling of Briggs tobacco. August 27, 2023
Khaled Mattawa The River Four weeks on a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea. February 6, 2023
Nathaniel Rich ‘The Italian Proust’ Italo Svevo’s late fiction has all the dark irony, self-flagellating introspection, manic obsessiveness, and unapologetic moral perversity of his best-known work. August 24, 2022
Tim Parks A Text Adrift How does the death of the author change the task of the translator? July 7, 2022
James Romm The Magnificence of the Medicis To the Florentine dynasts, art patronage was power expressed in pigment, but as a new show at the Met highlights, it left a legacy of incalculable value. July 17, 2021
Ingrid D. Rowland See Rome and Feel Alive “The city itself is an artistic treasure, so there was always something to see even when museums were closed.” May 1, 2021
J. Hoberman The ‘Lost World’ of Vittorio De Seta These luminous shorts depicting the hardscrabble lives of fishermen, shepherds, peasants, and miners in rural Italy turn documentary into art film. February 14, 2021
Emmanuel Iduma On Photography, Colonial History, and Collective Memory “I want photographs to bring me closer to storytelling, to help me understand tragedy.” October 3, 2020