Animals

by Sofia Pirandello

ISBN 978-1-59954-225-6

Crossings 42

Sofia Pirandello takes readers on a round trip from the Sicilian suburbs to Northern Italy and back again where the heat empties your head of thoughts and makes you sick with dissatisfaction, where under the dry land, scarred by drought, there flows hidden streams of a feral, violent world.

Sempre Fidele

by Joseph Bathanti

ISBN 978-1-59954-224-9

Crossings 41

Emanating from a now-vanished Little Italy in Pittsburgh, this bilingual poetry collection summons back to life a "rough and raw" American landscape of a bygone era.

The Indiscreet

by Elisabetta Rasy

ISBN 978-1-59954-212-6

Crossings 40

Tina Modotti, Diane Arbus, and Francesca Woodman have little in common of their origins or personal histories, but each share a passion to tell a story with the camera. Finding beauty and pain where it had never rarely been explored, Elisabetta Rasy explores the lives and adventures of these trailblazing photographers.

A Single Day

by Alain Elkann

ISBN 978-1-59954-211-9

Crossings 39

In the pages of Alain Elkann's latest novel, perhaps the most important book in his literary journey, the author takes on the challenge that is extreme brevity. Everything happens in one day because-as the author sees it-the dimensions of a story don't depend on its length. The tale of a brilliant bourgeois life becomes, brief as it is, a thriller. The narration is by turns ironic, comedic, realistic. And at times it grasps one with a noir-like wince, ensnaring itself in barely glimpsed fragments of the Shoah.

—Furio Colombo, il Fatto Quotidiano

More from Alain Elkann published by Bordighera Press: Nonna Carla and Anita

Man, Beast, and Virtue

by Luigi Pirandello

ISBN 978-1-59954-205-8

Crossings 37

Alice Rohe, pioneering photojournalist, offers a masterful translation of L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù, the controversial play by Luigi Pirandello. 

With his discovery of the text at the Library of Congress, Giuseppe Bolognese reintroduces readers to this farcical love triangle.

More from Luigi Pirandello published by Bordighera Press: The Coazze Notebook

An Education

edited by Nicoletta Stame

ISBN 978-1-59954-226-3

Il nostro mezzogiorno 2

This book is a collection of writings related to an educational journey, one that includes both classroom work (as practiced by Luca Meldolesi, professor of economic policy at Federico II University in Naples, and his students), and the formation of a group that has taken various names in successive phases.

An America in Antiquity?

by Luca Meldolesi

ISBN 978-1-59954-207-2

Il nostro mezzogiorno 1

" . . . there was a historical period in the central Mediterranean during which numerous peoples, villages, and towns, 'armed one against the other' undertook self-promoting initiatives, both native and imported, which culminated in the so-called 'Apennine culture,' the apogee of the Etruscan and other native civilizations. Furthermore, there also existed an era of city-states and an accelerated civilizing process marked by extraordinary prosperity and colonization, a transition that only finally ended with the Punic Wars in the 3rd century BC." 

—From the Introduction

This volume explores the dynamics that made possible long periods of progress outside the national-imperialist framework.

Show-Off, Unreliable, Erratic

by Andrea Perruccio

ISBN 978-1-59954-209-6

Saggistica 42

Fellini-Satyricon is a romp through an ancient Rome recreated via the imagination of the director Federico Fellini. Here Andrea Perruccio offers us an enlightening comparative study of the cinematic text and its source material, Satyrica by Petronius. Through scrupulous scholarship, close reading, and strong analytical intuition, Show-off, Unreliable, Erratic is a perfect gateway into that work of fiction from the Imperial Rome of Nero as well as the Fellini masterpiece.

The Tomb of the Divers

by Francine Masiello

ISBN 978-1-59954-223-2

VIA Folios 175

Moving beyond stereotypical tales of poverty and deprivation in southern Italy, The Tomb of the Divers weaves an immigrant yarn about small-time artists and crooks who, over the course of a century, wend their way from Basilicata to the anarchist enclaves of Paterson, New Jersey and from fascist Italy during World War II to Buenos Aires a er its "dirty war" of the 1980s.

This multigenerational story is told by narrators Rosanna and Max, siblings who dig into family archives and dispute their revelations. But Francine Masiello doesn't let us distinguish history from fiction, truth from lies; instead, writing with pleasure and wit, she reminds readers of that old Italian saying . . .

It's not true, but I believe it.

The Birthday Years

by Rachel Guido deVries

ISBN 978-1-59954-221-8

VIA Folios 173

Off and on since Rachel Guido deVries was eleven years old, she has written a poem on her birthday. Now at 75, she has gathered these poems into a collection both intimate and expansive, mixing the natural world with personal insight.

Collegiate Gothic

by Matthew Meduri

ISBN 978-1-59954-220-1

VIA Folios 172

Fall semester 2009. Will Thierry is burnt out. He thought he had written a philosophy to end all philosophies. Instead, after abandoning his former life in New York, he has found himself stuck in Ohio at a perpetually renovated public university where the students don't care, the faculty is spread thin, and the administration is executing budget cuts of epic proportion, including Will's department and his job. To make matters worse, he suspects he is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend Lily Zephyr, inarguably the reason why he is in this purgatory of suburban sprawl and Sunday dinners. In an attempt to track down his pursuer, Will embarks on a paranoid investigation that leads him to strange coincidences, colleague conflicts, an affair with another professor's wife, the archives of an obscure Italian architect, recruiting a student as his own private investigator, and yes, even vertigo, all to confront a past he thought he'd left behind.

Finding Dandini

by Thomas Ruggio

ISBN 978-1-59954-219-5

VIA Folios 171

A university professor of fine art and art history walks into an empty church in New York, seeking peace and clarity, and makes an unexpected observation-an Italian Baroque masterpiece unassumingly hanging on the wall. His ensuing scholarship leads to the rediscovery of Cesare Dandini's previously missing "Holy Family with the Infant Saint John."

Dandini rose to prominence in the early 1630s, amid one of the darkest periods in the history of Florence. Despite the plague and Rome's oppressive power, the troubled artist overcame his own personal struggles to become one of the city's finest painters.

Cesare Dandini is brought back to life in this volume as a result of significant new research, including previously unidentified self-portraits.

From the Margin

edited by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Paolo A. Giordano, and Fred L. Gardaphé

ISBN 978-1-59954-218-8

VIA Folios 170

Here is a mother lode of gold, till now unexplored. The richness of Italian American writings, seldom recognized, is at last given its due.

—Studs Terkel

Both nostalgia and scholarship are appealed to, and so are the taste buds: even the criticism refers unceasingly to pastry, a sip of wine, the scent of garlic on one's fingers. Buon appetito!

—Library Journal

After Italy

by Anna Monardo

ISBN 978-1-59954-216-4

VIA Folios 169

After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage is the story of marriages across three generations. Starting from a marriage brokered to facilitate immigration from Southern Italy to Braddock, PA, a steel town outside of Pittsburgh, before and immediately after WWII, this memoir explores the multigenerational impact of arranged marriage.

Extinction Wednesday

by Joey Nicoletti

ISBN 978-1-59954-215-7

VIA Folios 168

Extinction Wednesday is a memoir that investigates the challenges of nostalgia, letting go of the past, and pursuing positive change through the lenses of learning, unlearning, popular culture, and a New York Italian American experience

More from Joey Nicoletti published by Bordighera Press: Reverse Graffiti

Trigger

by Maria Famà

ISBN 978-1-59954-214-0

VIA Folios 167

Trigger combines the past and present through poems of family, heritage, and popular culture. Poems of connection, this collection showcases the 'joy and wonder' of everyday life.

More from Maria Famà published by Bordighera Press: The Good for the Good, Mystics in the Family, and Looking for Cover

What? Nothing

by Willi Q Minn

ISBN 978-1-59954-213-3

VIA Folios 166

These poems traffic in the day to day living of two talking heads, Giulia and Willi - residents in the barrier island Lido di Venezia, wizened by forty years of transatlantic crossings between Italy and the United States and now made idle by age and their forced removal from the public sphere of work. Clinging like exhausted swimmers to the forgotten creeds of western democracy, wherein every person is purportedly king and queen unto themselves, they take their dubious status to heart by wielding their metaphors with mortal irony.