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Daniel Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines the decades-long campaign in the US to restrict immigration that led to the passage of the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, legislation which established a quota system designed to virtually bar immigration to the US from Southern and Eastern Europe. A century later, at a time when xenophobia, anti-Semitism a...

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At my local book shop, Todo Modo, co-owner Pietro Torrigiani is stockpiling copies of Elena Ferrante’s new novel, “La vita bugiarda degli adulti.” The book, which will arrive in the United States as “The Lying Life of Adults” in June, is flying off the shelves - not just at eclectic indie shops like Todo Modo, but also at supermarkets and highway r...

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In his new book, The Image of the Puppet, Dr. Pacchioni identifies and interprets the aesthetic and cultural significance of the different traditions of the Italian puppet theater in the broader Italian culture and beyond. Grounded in the often-overlooked history of the evolution of different Italian puppetry traditions –the central and northern It...

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It is designed to provide, at a glance, the information necessary to determine whether a student is eligible for a particular scholarship. The scholarships included vary in dollar amount, as well as requirements for deadline, educational level, grade point average, and major area of study. Contact information is included for further reference. The...

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Thursday, February 20, 2020, 6pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY 10036.In Vita: A Memoir, Joanne Mattera recounts her childhood in an Italian American family—the oldest of five and the only girl—as the repression of the 1950s gave way to the free expression of the 1960s. A collage of memories at her gran...

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International audiences will have to wait another six months to get their hands on Elena Ferrante’s latest novel The Lying Life of Adults. In Italy, though, the book has been out since November when it was met with considerable fanfare by the reading public. This was the event of Italy’s 2019 literary calendar, a moment which saw bookshops across t...

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IN THIS LAVISHLY illustrated guide, international bestselling author Frances Mayes teams up with New York Times travel writer Ondine Cohane to reveal the inside secrets of a magical country. Featuring all 20 iconic regions, Always Italy (National Geographic; March 31, 2020; $35.00 U.S.; ISBN: 978-1-4262-2091-3; hardcover; 416 pages; 375 photographs...

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On the hutch in my dining room are framed wedding photos of my parents, grandparents, in-laws and grandparents-in-law. Oh, and me and my husband.  When we married, we had the photos arranged around our wedding cake with little notes about how they all met, how long they’d been married and something about them as a couple. We figured it was good kar...

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Auguri to NIAF Member Joanne Mosconi for publishing her new cookbook The Chef of Greenwich Village, which tells father’s story and recipes. When her father Chef Pietro, owner of Monte’s and Villa Mosconi restaurants in Lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, had a heart attack in April 2015, Mosconi promised God that if he survived that s...

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Tony's Pizzeria occupied the storefront at 100-05 Metropolitan Avenue from 1969 to 2001. Anthony Sciarratta, the grandson of Anthony "Tony" Sciarratta, hopes to reopen the pizzeria in the coming years. Tony's grandson is a novelist who recently released his first book, "Finding Forever: A 1970s Love Story", with Post Hill Press. Ironically, the boo...

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