“Vittorio De Sica’s Rome” is a fine book by Valeria Arnaldi: a light yet intense journey that traces the actor and director’s family’s arrival in the capital, followed by the places dear to him – those he lived in, those he saw, and those linked to his cinematic vision.

A review of John Steinbeck’s book, published by Bompiani, 112 pp., 12 euros

A review of Giovanni Testori’s book, published by Il Saggiatore, 110 pp., 14 euros

A review of the book by Francesca Pilato, published by Florestano Edizioni, 88 pp., 18 euros

A review of Edwidge Danticat’s book, published by Utopia, 224 pp., 19 euros

A review of Ilona Wisniewska’s book, published by Iperborea, 288 pp., 20 euros

The Sardinian writer and the immense distraction. “Literature serves to connect, something we never do. We are a country that confuses everything, complication with complexity, but the latter is necessary.”

 Drawing on the etymology of the Greek verb from which the word ‘phantom’ derives – and which relates to the semantic field of ‘appearing’ – Giacomo Petrarca explores the figure of Moses, starting from what he defines as an ‘excess of presence’