The Size of Life: On Dino Buzzati’s “The Singularity”
Buzzati makes a case for the necessary limitations of the “wretched flesh” in which we experience life, experience that cannot be reduced to the digital binary—singular experience.
Eating Time: On Marosia Castaldi’s “The Hunger of Women”
Rosa has entered a different understanding of time and its allotments, one removed from the linear progression for heterosexual women as dictated by girlhood, marriage, and childbirth.
Convergence and Departure: On Donatella Di Pietrantonio's "A Sister's Story"
There is perhaps no archetype of sisterly devotion as enduringly popular as Little Women’s March girls.
In Search of Self through the Other: On Domenico Starnone's "Trust"
The premise of Domenico Starnone’s novel Trust—a teacher’s life-changing affair with his former student—might suggest to the wary reader a familiar story of predator and prey.