Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
A nearly frantic irony
The recent passing of Pulitzer Prize’s recipient Philip Roth, who is also considered the most important contemporary American writer, has brought...
Miriam Bonetti – Mukarib
My name is Mukarib, but everyone calls me Mucca. Not Muka, but Mucca, just as the animal who lives in the barn and makes...
Luigi Meneghello – The Little Teachers
A Resistance that palpitates with humanity
Luigi Meneghello tells his own experience during the first years of the war of Liberation, when still those who...
Serge Quadruppani – The Politics of Fear
None other than our world
In his essay The politics of fear, what Serge Quadrupani shows us, as Wu Ming 1 say in the preface,...
Ilona Jerger – And Marx kept silent in Darwin’s garden
A novel that tells, with frequent flash-backs, the last years of two of the most important minds of the nineteenth century: Charles Darwin and...
Nicoletta Vallorani – Wolf Eyes
A Parable against prejudices
The young Inuit Azùl wants to avenge the death of a friend killed by the Motherless, fierce and mysterious beings who...
Vittorio Curtoni – White on black
How can you die
White on black presents nine short stories of Vittorio Curtoni, a great master of Italian science fiction, preceded by a masterly...
Nicoletta Vallorani – Like a Whale
The value of “whaleness”
The dolphin Ciro saves (or maybe not) the whale Alice, orphaned following the escape of the mother in front of the...
Robert A. Heinlein – The moon is a harsh mistress
How a revolution is born
In 2075 the moon is used as a penal colony by the Terrans, where all types of scum are exiled....
Mika Waltari – The Dark Angel
The end of an era
1453: Constantinople is going to fall into Turkish hands. It’s the end of an era. Among the fatalistic desperation of...
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Ellen Bass – The Small Country
Unique, I think, is the Scottish tartle, that hesitation
when introducing someone whose name you’ve forgotten
and what could capture cafuné, the Brazilian Portuguese way...
