The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ippolito Nievo's nineteenth-century classic, Confessions of an Italian, a Penguin Classics edition now also available in the US -- and the first unabridged English translation.
A recent Vogue-profile of Italy's currently hottest writer, Elena Ferrante, reported:
Tim Parks' recent review in The New York Review of Books seems to have helped generate some interest in this title, too -- good to see it get all this attention.
A recent Vogue-profile of Italy's currently hottest writer, Elena Ferrante, reported:
At sixteen, Ferrante found herself captivated by Ippolito Nievo's Confessions of an ItalianAnd this translation made two 'Best of 2014' lists, The New Yorker's (Elizabeth Kolbert) and the New Statesman's (Lucy Hughes-Hallett).
Tim Parks' recent review in The New York Review of Books seems to have helped generate some interest in this title, too -- good to see it get all this attention.