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Helena Janeczek
The Girl with the Leica
The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women’s lives. -
Elena Ferrante
Incidental Inventions
“This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.” -
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Sylvain Tesson
Berezina
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’vegot Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines... -
Andrea Marcolongo
The Ingenious Language
For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. -
Piero Boitani
A New Sublime
Boitani’s presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
Book 3 in de Giovanni’s bestselling “Bastards of Pizzofalcone” series is set in contemporary Naples during season of cold winds, political hijinks, and murder. A heinous, double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and the rest of... -
Fernand Braudel
Out of Italy
Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. -
Andrea Camilleri
The Sect of Angels
Based on a true story and told with the pacing, humor, and thrills of a Mediterranean mystery, Andrea Camilleri’s new novel tells of a turn-of-the-century Sicilian scandal that revealed a tendency that is with us still: the refusal to accept the truth. The lawyer and journalist Matteo...