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Zong!, Marlene Nourbese Philip, 2008   I believe that what makes Spoken Word popular in most civil rights movements is the fact that it is much more effective than a...

Private Renaissance, Maria Bellonci, 1985   Any Italian school book mentions the Strega Prize, one of the most important Italian literary competitions in the last fifty years. What is rarely...

The garden party, Katherine Mansfield, 1922   What interested me in Katherine Mansfield was a fact reported in her biography: at the end of 1914, in her mid-twenties, she had...

Requiem, Anna Achmatova, 1935 I’ve always loved the total absence of frills in Anna Akhmatova's poems. There are no metaphors, comparisons, or anaphors—everything that I used to consider constitutive of...

The myth of Beauty, Naomi Wolf, 1990   I once argued with a friend about a "beauty issue." We met for a walk in the city center, and she went...

Nothing true, Veronica Raimo, 2022   In Italy, being against the Church is quite mainstream, even if you don't say it on television and still go to mass on Sundays....