The election victory of Donald Trump was a shock to many, both in the USA and elsewhere. The aggressive electoral campaign, the attacks on the media and minorities, the obvious support of the extreme...
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Caterina Soffici
journalist and author
Caterina Soffici writes from London on the arts and current affairs for the Italian publications Il Fatto Quotidiano, Vanity Fair and Il Venerdì di Repubblica. She also contributes to the Ministry of Stories, the lab in Hoxton, East London, where children and young adults are taught the importance of creativity, story-telling and memory. She is the author of Ma le donne no - come si vive nel paese più maschilista d'Europa (2010), Italia yes Italia no (2014) and her first novel Nessuno può fermarmi (Feltrinelli, 2017).
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The torpedoing and sinking in June 1940 while on its way to Canada of the Arandora Star, a ship full of Italian and German citizens condemned to expulsion after Mussolini declared war on the UK, is...
A stroll between poetry and science to consider the people and ideas that anticipated the present. Through a thousand-year journey in poetry, ranging from Homer to William Blake, from Dante to Gozza...
A story of freedom and denied rights. Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been held in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, despite having been acquitted for lack of evidence. In 2005, he began writing a...
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4 may 2014
Impersonation, duping, entrapment, mighty falsehoods: all legitimate for journalists in getting the story?
In a recent controversial episode in Italian journalism, one of the hosts of the Zanzara current affairs radio talk show - impersonating a well-known Italian politician - phoned another Italian politi...
London (and any destination that Italians flee to) is no better than Italy, writes Catherine Soffici in her book Italia yes, Italia no. “But I found the (blessing of the) banality of normality in Lo...