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What tricks does the Catholic right have to define itself as the centre of Europe
THE WEST: European culture is «characterized by a melancholic feeling due to its alienation or inferiority towards a source that evokes a nostalgic feeling.» Really?
An Italian photo cavalcade
PHOTOGRAPHY: It would be almost fifty years before Paolo di Paolo’s daughter found the pictures his father had taken and confronted him with his hitherto unknown past as an (Italian) celebrity photographer.
The world’s best Catholics?
RELIGION: With the discovery of children’s graves in Canada, the Canadians are arguably making the Irish rank as «the world’s best Catholics.»
She could be Italy’s next prime minister
ITALY: «I’m a woman, I’m a Christian, I’m a mother, I’m Italian, I’m on the right, I’m Giorgia.» A book devoid of political analysis?
When white is the real dirt
ENVIRONMENT: How Belgian chemical business activities brought both prosperity and pollution to one coastal Italian village.
The houses we were, the cities we are
Two important but very different documentaries from 2018 showcase the power of the short film form.
Impressions from Piazza Vittorio
Abel Ferrara‘s latest film is a kaleidoscope of impressions that narrates the life of immigrants in Italy and their shared experience of desperation and an uncertain future in Europe.