Italy in shockEurope’s sad record of hotels turning away Israeli tourists. All it takes is the wrong passportIn Italy, no hotelier has written: ‘Russian tourists are welcome if they disagree with Putin’. With the Israelis, that distinction strangely disappears and everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet. In their case, discrimination flouts the lawbyGiulio Meotti5 SEP 26
Lives straight out of a novel, in a hotelHotels are part of our collective imagination, and literature has drawn on thisThe enigmatic characters of Roth’s Savoy, the drama of Simenon’s Majestic, the hidden horrors of King’s Overlook. The relationship between places of hospitality and novels is not merely about opulence, but, more generally, draws on the symbolic power of a place that mimics a home yet, in reality, merely serves as a waystationbyMarco Archetti22 AUG 26