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Sunday Miscellany: From Dublin to Genovese with Rory Gleeson

On regional idiosyncrasies and national stereotypes, from Italy to Ireland...
Sunday Miscellany • 28 Sep 23

A heart-stopping experience on an Italian beach

A heart-stopping experience on a Viareggio beach
Sunday Miscellany • 06 Sep 23

Sunday Miscellany: Breakfast at Sartorelli's by Eoin Pól Ó Rúis

A Tyrone man's thoughts of home
Sunday Miscellany • 14 Sep 21

Sunday Miscellany: The Sea That Defies Time by William Wall

Sunday Miscellany • 01 Sep 21

Sunday Miscellany: How my dog became an Italian citizen

Sunday Miscellany • 13 May 21

The Italian Escape by Catherine Mangan - read an extract

Books • 04 May 21

Sunday Miscellany - a love letter to Venice

Sunday Miscellany • 24 Mar 21

Reviewed: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" could be the epigraph of Elena Ferrante's book The Lying Life of Adults (translated by Ann Goldstein), the "tangled knot" of truth and lies in which the first-person narrator Giovanna pours her aching heart.
Books • 15 Sep 20

My Italian Job: Elizabeth MacDonald gets lost in interpretation

Novelist Elizabeth Mac Donald writes for Culture about a case of mistaken cultural identity...
Books • 04 Dec 19

Reviewed: Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

The Italian writer and parliamentarian, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) closely adhered to her own family story for Family Lexicon, which is generally described as an autobiographical novel. It is a marvellous work that should be much better known.
Books • 03 May 19

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