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Colm Toibin's novel "Brooklyn" is at once a classic narrative of the immigrant's conflicted passions and allegiances and a story of female self-questioning that transcends the immigrant-lit genre. It offers a New York that is both a grand escape and a small town.   "Brooklyn" is the story of a young Irishwoman named Eilis Lacey whose bookkee...

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"David Mercaldo has a daring new book: ...a herculean task... An important book we must read with a healthy curiosity." -MARIO FRATTI Playwright ("NINE") International Theater Critic "Mercaldo's pen has gone where no other Italian author's pen has ever gone before!" -Italian American Magazine "Among the most controve...

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When Rizzoli bookshop closed this past year on 57th Street, many people lamented its loss. It was the last really elegant shop of its kind left in Manhattan. But for some of us, while its closing was sad, it was a tempered sadness.   After all it wasn't the real Rizzoli bookstore that had opened at 712 Fifth Avenue in the 1960s. That particu...

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Near the beginning of My Brilliant Friend, the first of Elena Ferrante's series of novels about a complicated friendship between two women from the slums of Naples, the girls, then in elementary school, play hooky and sneak out of "the neighborhood," their claustrophobic network of courtyards and stairwells filled with violence and poverty. Lenú an...

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Doris Gallippi examines and writes their family history and at the same time imparts social history of first generation Americans who courageously forged a path from Italy to America from 1895 to 1922. This book chronicles "An Extraordinary Journey" (published by Xlibris) of emigrants and their treasured families.   This is the story of two...

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Take your students on a delightful journey to eight Italian cities without leaving the classroom. A spasso, che spasso! is a new contemporary literature reader that will enrich their knowledge of Italian cultural life, lifestyle, culinary traditions, events, tourism spots, art, history and more through the literary writings of Aldo Cazzullo, Antone...

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Come eravamo. Come siamo. Come vorremmo essere. In Italia e oltre i confini della Penisola. Dal sogno passare alla realtà della Bellezza dell'Italia. Il recente film di Paolo Sorrentino premiato con l'Oscar ha riacceso i riflettori sulla nostra ricchezza artistica, storica e culturale da tutelare e valorizzare. È fresco di stampa ed è stato present...

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Lea Noring of Acworth, Ga., had a destination in mind for her first trip to New York, and it was not one of those crowded places like Times Square or the Empire State Building that the locals disdain as tourist traps.   "I always thought that when I got to New York, the first thing I'd do was go to Rizzoli," she said.   Read more &nb...

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di Chiara Trebaiocchi   Amata e odiata, senza troppe misure o mezzi termini. In fondo anche Oriana era così, una donna e una giornalista unica, senza troppe misure o mezzi termini. Di certo è stata e rimane la Fallaci, la giornalista italiana più nota e apprezzata all'estero. Nel suo paese, anch'esso forse amato e odiato, la sua figura conti...

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by Larry Meegan   A question often asked when Italian friends and families get together is, "Have you eaten?" So many gatherings and celebrations involve food and the joy a good meal brings.   Ocean County Library's Upper Shores branch, 112 Jersey City Ave., Lavallette, will present "Mangia Italiano - molto bene," a celebration of Ita...

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