Inside Story

Essays & reportage How far we’ve come, and how far we have not Dean Ashenden 10 July 2024 Vilified for his “exhibitionist ecclesiastical activism,” an Italian priest created a fertile place of learning 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

Books & arts Paradise lost Julie Rigg 26 June 2019 Cinema | Happy as Lazzaro is the latest work from a highly original talent 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 International 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

Essays & reportage “Australia has brought out things about myself that I thought wouldn’t exist” Peter Mares 4 January 2016 Temporary migration is fuelling a new boom in migration from Italy. But trying to settle permanently can be a disillusioning process 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 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…