In the wake of the landmark Supreme Court decision of Obergefell v. Hodges, the United States became a major (and overdue) addition to the handful of countries that recognize same-sex marriage.… Read more »

Topics discussed: airports, music that inspired airports but that’s not necessarily for airports, big corporations, bigger corporations, Google, Google Translate, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Laundry, The Internship, The Interview,… Read more »

The Calabria region in southern Italy (the toe of the boot, if you would) has approved a measure to allow prison inmates to cut time off their sentences by reading… Read more »

Retired schoolteacher Antonio La Cava from Ferrandina, Italy calls himself “the master of the road” in his little book mobile, a vehicle he created to be a library —complete with… Read more »

Last year around this time, the New York Times happily announced that French bookstores are still thriving. The article suggested that the French value books as cultural objects, and that the writer is… Read more »

In the mountains above Lucca in Tuscany, hill towns nestled on tree-lined ridges with dense foliage, wildflowers, grape vines, and narrow roads with hairpin turns, look down over the Lima… Read more »

It’s probably a good time for the Pope to put out a new book, the third in his “Jesus of Nazareth” series, preceded by Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism… Read more »

The second annual “Trame” (“Plots” in English) literary festival was held at the end of June this year in southern Italy. It is billed on the festival website as the… Read more »