Natalia Ginzburg

Outlandish epic: Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, reviewed

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Spanning three generations of Sicilian women, this family saga of honour, deception and class politics is also a study in morality and the petty ways in which it is eroded

Nello and Carlo Rosselli, photograph from a family album

In defiance of Il Duce

8 July 2017 9:00 am

The details of Mussolini’s fascism are perhaps not quite as familiar in this country as they might be. Even quite…