Close

James Kaplan's Sinatra: The Chairman takes around a thousand pages to get us from his Academy Award for From Here To Eternity in 1954 to his death in 1998. Kaplan's previous volume, Frank: The Voice (2010), used up almost 900 pages to get us from Frank's birth in 1915 to '54. The combined 1900 pages of the two books isn't long by the standards of,...

1109

by Sandra Tornberg   Umberto Mucci is my "virtual" friend who lives in Rome – virtual because I met him online, a friend because we share many of the same interests and I rely on him for inspiration and support. Umberto is the founder and CEO of We the Italians, www.wetheitalians.com, a website about anything regarding Italy and the US. He h...

1623

I just finished reading "Little Italy of the BRONX: Arthur Avenue and Belmont" (New York City). Very informative! Described as "One Big Family", the Italian immigrant culture that developed here is said to be comparable to "a new Italian village", as Italians from all over Italy merged into one newly formed community.   The authors, Stephen...

1229

Another of classical philology's wildest dreams is on the verge of coming true. Every so often, something lost forever suddenly re-appears.   On the eve of humanism, Petrarch rediscovered the letters of Cicero and sections of Livy. A few decades later, Poggio Bracciolini resurrected Lucretius and Quintilian.   Read more  ...

1507

The Italian American Museum presents SICILIAN TREASURES: Major Developments in the Architecture and Literature of Sicily. From Beginnings to the Present. Presented by Prof. Santi V. Buscemi   You are cordially invited to attend a lecture and power point presentation on the architecture and literature of Sicily at the Ital...

1015

Dear all, please see the following Call for Book Reviews by Carte Italiane, the journal of the Department of Italian at UCLA. In addition to our upcoming issue dedicated to how conflicts and wars have shaped Italian identities, Carte Italiane will also feature a section of Book Reviews. Not only do we believe in up-to-date and thorough scholar...

719

Colm Toibin's novel "Brooklyn" is at once a classic narrative of the immigrant's conflicted passions and allegiances and a story of female self-questioning that transcends the immigrant-lit genre. It offers a New York that is both a grand escape and a small town.   "Brooklyn" is the story of a young Irishwoman named Eilis Lacey whose bookkee...

847

"David Mercaldo has a daring new book: ...a herculean task... An important book we must read with a healthy curiosity." -MARIO FRATTI Playwright ("NINE") International Theater Critic "Mercaldo's pen has gone where no other Italian author's pen has ever gone before!" -Italian American Magazine "Among the most controve...

1239

When Rizzoli bookshop closed this past year on 57th Street, many people lamented its loss. It was the last really elegant shop of its kind left in Manhattan. But for some of us, while its closing was sad, it was a tempered sadness.   After all it wasn't the real Rizzoli bookstore that had opened at 712 Fifth Avenue in the 1960s. That particu...

761

Near the beginning of My Brilliant Friend, the first of Elena Ferrante's series of novels about a complicated friendship between two women from the slums of Naples, the girls, then in elementary school, play hooky and sneak out of "the neighborhood," their claustrophobic network of courtyards and stairwells filled with violence and poverty. Lenú an...

567