An artwork that does not contain nudity or blasphemy provokes public outrage? What the hell is going on? It’s rare for a piece of art to make a stir in public discourse and when it does it’s usually because it’s terrible – the famous Anna Livia sculpture in Dublin is...
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator, by Paul Corner, Oxford University Press, 179 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-0192866646The Pope At War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini & Hitler, by David I Kertzer, Oxford University Press, 621 pp, £25,...
On Saturday 18th of February, a group of high school students, members of Collective Sum , peacefully occupying their school in protest at a variety of problems, were attacked by a group of fascists from an organisation called Azione Studentesca (Student Action) which...
Today is the International Day of Memory. We remember not just the six to eight million Jews killed by the Nazis but all of those who died in the gas-chambers and work camps, in the massacres, in the torture chambers. They included communists, socialists, anarchists,...
Translator’s Introduction It is, I believe necessary to rescue Joyce from the industry he created. I don’t know of any other writer who who has given employment to so many scholars with the possible exception of Shakespeare, who has had a longer run at it. Joyce...
