Italian literature

Book Reviews

• Stephen Bemrose: A New Life of Dante
  - an intellectual biography
• Gesualdo Bufalino: Night's Lies*
  - on the eve of execution, four prisoners tell tales of deceit
• Roberto Calasso: Ka**
  - a superb synthesis of Hindu mythology
• Andrea Camilleri: The Terracotta Dog
  - a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza: The Great Human Diasporas*
  The History of Diversity and Evolution
• Giuseppe di Lampedusa: The Leopard*
  - a Sicilian aristocrat faces change in 1860
• Umberto Eco: On Literature
  - an assortment of literary criticism
• Andrea Giardina: The Romans
  - a social history
• Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
  - a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
• Primo Levi: The Periodic Table**
  - stories of a chemist working with elements
• Primo Levi: A Tranquil Star
  - realistic and fantastic short stories
• Primo Levi: The Wrench*
  - superb fiction about the life of an Italian working man
• Mario Liverani: Israel's History and the History of Israel**
  - ancient histories, normal and invented
• Marta Morazzoni: The Alphonse Courrier Affair*
  - a comedy of manners in a French village
• Leonardo Sciascia: The Knight and Death*
  Three Novellas
• Antonio Tabucchi: Declares Pereira*
  - a political awakening in 1938 Portugal

See also: Italy | world literature