With rugged verse "like a strega's curse," Angelo Zeolla navigates the stoops and alleyways of the Bronx through worlds of languages, dialects, culturesa, and more. "The Bronx Unbound" is a kale...więcej »
This multi-genre collection explores and unravels the complexities of "home" as a physical and cultural space, and as a contested condition of being. Drawing on personal experience as well as on...więcej »
I have often been asked by Italians: "Who are these Italian Americans? Why don't they speak Italian like us? Why don't they read the same books we read? Why don't they behave like us? Why do the...więcej »
Marie Genovese looks out from her apartment window above the Five ' Ten and wonders how she'll save the failing store she's inherited from her mother. In a...więcej »
In the spirit of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan stories, Puzzle follows a young couple during Italy's infamous period known as the "Anni di Piombo," or "Years of Lead." Sebastiano and Mari...więcej »
"He was ready to let himself be pervaded by an idea and to experience it by compassionately living it, so as to possess it. Then sometimes he would turn it around and transform it into something...więcej »
First published in Italy in 1982 and available to only a handful of scholars in the US, Boelhower's classic study Immigrant Autobiography in the United States led the way in identifying...więcej »
Eleven academics pay tribute to the work of Robert Viscusi (1941-2020), a poet and a scholar of Italian American culture, predominantly literature. Some of these essays deal directly with Viscus...więcej »