Tag: Roma O’Flaherty
Giorgio Olivari – Queen
She wears an immaculate shirt, her long neck hidden by a coloured foulard: natural green and warm blue splashed with red. Very French.
She is...
Ada Gobetti – Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian...
The brave everyday life of the Resistance
Ada Prospero was the wife of Piero Gobetti, an Italian journalist and politician who, in 1926, died very...
His Excellency Stopped Here For Lunch
His Excellency Stopped Here for Lunch (1961) directed by Mario Mattòli is a sex comedy starring Totò, Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello, Francesco Mulè, Virna...
Stig Dagerman – German Autumn
This short novel can without doubt be defined as journalism; it is, however, a kind of journalism we are not accustomed to, a journalism...
Andrea Peirone – In Spirits
A large crowd of disciples had gathered on the high-backed chairs of an old theatre and curiously leaned forward towards the centre of the...
Andrea Staid – The Stateless
A change is possible
In this brief but enlightening essay, anthropologist Andrea Staid analyzes power and work from the point of view of primitive societies,...
Blake Northcott – Arena Mode
Heroes with super problems
United States, 2041. Civilization is in a shambles: the rich are getting richer and the poor, already poorer, live in confined...
Silvio Donà – Extasia
The drug of the future
In a city destroyed by a global disaster, afflicted by the disease which has devastated half the world, and without...
Massimo Vaggi – Sarajevo Ninety-two
The dream of football and the sense to flee
1992. Milo lives in Sarajevo and is a promising young talent for the local football team....
Michele Curatolo – The Perfect Day
Life, as is often the case, had not been too kind to Alessandro Cominardi, aka Alex. Like all of us, Alex is a good...