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Italy
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
Essays & Reportage
Island stories
Frank Bongiorno
29 July 2020
How one family negotiated identities between different Italies
Books & Arts
Behind fascist lines
Seumas Spark
15 July 2020
Books
| Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war
International
Italy’s Black Lives Matter moment
James Panichi
30 June 2020
Clashes over a statue in Milan reveal complicated truths about the country’s postwar history
International
How Matteo Salvini dealt himself out of power
James Panichi
30 August 2019
Will the new Italian government be more durable than its short-lived predecessor?
Correspondents
The remarkable deeds of Captain Rackete
Klaus Neumann
12 July 2019
Has Italy’s far-right interior minister met his match in this young woman with an astonishing impact?
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
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
National Affairs
Italy’s offshore voters confront an electoral conundrum
James Panichi
28 February 2018
An unconventional election campaign reached Melbourne this month. What was on offer, and why?
International
Italy: the bel paese that lost its way
Tim Colebatch
2 October 2017
Life is still good for many Italians, but bad decisions are deepening the north–south divide
Correspondents
In France, another European populist vanquished
James Panichi
8 May 2017
Letter from Brussels
| Is Emmanuel Macron’s victory – just days after Matteo Renzi resumed the leadership of Italy’s Democratic Party – a turning…
International
Italy’s Charles de Gaulle moment
James Panichi
6 December 2016
Prime minister Matteo Renzi risked everything in his attempt to reduce the power of the Senate and cut back on layers of government
Books & Arts
Judge by the hands, not by the eyes
Brett Evans
24 June 2016
Books
| Maurizio Viroli wants us to take a fresh look at the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, writes
Brett Evans
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
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
International
Berlusconi’s Italy on trial
Geoff Andrews
3 March 2011
Berlusconi’s success in holding on to power highlights a vacuum at the heart of Italy’s politics, writes
Geoff Andrews
International
Berlusconi’s long goodbye
Geoff Andrews
27 October 2010
The cracks in the Italian government are growing wider, writes
Geoff Andrews
. But can the opposition rise to the challenge?
International
The rise and rise of Italy’s postmodern populist
Geoff Andrews
4 August 2009
The Berlusconi scandals point to a deeper malaise within Italy’s political elite, writes
Geoff Andrews
International
The Mediterranean solution
Annika Lems
10 February 2009
Italy’s new system for processing asylum seekers offshore – with its echoes of Australia’s Pacific Solution – is generating unrest on the tiny island of…
Essays & Reportage
The diaspora fights back
James Panichi
4 December 2008
Rugby star David Campese, Victorian Labor MP Carlo Carli and Argentinean millionaire Luigi Pallaro (pictured) all took a keen interest in Italy’s experiment in democracy. But it…