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Books & arts Memento Moro James Panichi 2 May 2023 What’s missing from Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night is as compelling as what’s on the screen International Making sense of Meloni James Panichi 2 November 2022 Labelling Italy’s new prime minister a fascist misses the longer-term significance of her rise to power — and some shrewd decisions since she got the job Books & arts In the footsteps of the garibaldini James Panichi 19 November 2021 Explaining Italy to the rest of us is Tim Parks’s specialty. Now he retraces a daring campaign conceived by the country’s best-known founder International Italy’s disembodied populists James Panichi 23 September 2020 Monday’s referendum and election results highlight the vulnerability of the Five Star Movement

International Is it curtains for Italy’s master semioticians of the airwaves? James Panichi 2 May 2019 The Radical Party’s broadcasting arm has been taking transparency seriously for more than four decades From the archive Ferrante’s dangerous genius Jane Goodall 6 December 2018 HBO’s carefully paced adaptation of My Brilliant Friend brings a corner of Naples to life Correspondents Waving, but also drowning Klaus Neumann 24 July 2018 The rising death toll in the Mediterranean reflects a deeper problem with European policy towards irregular migrants Books & arts On the edge Julie Rigg 24 July 2018 Cinema | New films from Italy and Australia capture life on the periferia

Essays & reportage Venice, washed by many pasts R.J.B. Bosworth 27 August 2014 Duplicitous, pure, dream-like, artificial, psychopathic, unpredictable? Beneath the overheated commentary about Venice, there’s a real city, writes R.J.B. Bosworth Correspondents Italy’s best-known comedian meets the ghost of Mussolini James Panichi 18 February 2014 Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement made stunning gains at Italy’s last election, writes James Panichi. But as the controversy over its guiding… International In the city of the singing trams R.J.B. Bosworth 12 February 2013 A winter-time research trip to Rome gives R.J.B. Bosworth the chance to gauge the shifting pattern of party support as Italy’s national election campaign enters its… Correspondents Nothing hypothetical about Italy’s phone-tapping controversy James Panichi 21 September 2012 Italy’s long-running battle between politicians and judges has taken a new turn, writes James Panichi. Meanwhile, a new political force is emerging