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Listen to the review: A shocking wonderful surprise. A pitch-black noir, darker than the classic ones, in the Mediterranean sunshine Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 5 of 5 stars A shocking wonderful surprise. This novel is a p...

Homage to Bob Dylan – the man in me. Omaggio a Bob Dylan – l’uomo in me. I don’t know how it happened, we were just kids, late teenagers attending high school, running wild in the early seventies still roaring with the rebelliousness and...

Un piccolo regalo a chi ha appena finito gli esami di Stato: un racconto ambientato durante la 'maturità', tratto dalla mia collection di short-stories Questa scuola non è una azienda! - i racconti del prof. Bingo (ed. Pendragon, Bologna...

The courage, the stress, the loneliness, the fatigue, the hard work, the uncertainties, the toughness of a war voluntarily chosen for a high moral duty. What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal accoun...

The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Michael Chabon) - I demoni di Berlino (Fabiano Massimi) - La satgione del pipistrello (L. Macchiavelli) - Gone Girl (G. Flynn) - The City & the City (C. Miéville) - Red Harvest (D. Hammett) - Il contest...

’68 – Ce n’est qu’un debut… (Paolo Brogi) - Storie di sport e poltica (A. Molinari, G. Toni) - A Year in Provence (P. Mayle) - Soprannome Dreamer (G. Luppi) book-shields '68 - Ce n'est qu'un debut... Quest’anno è il cinquantesimo del ’68...

book-shields Molto di me stesso lo devo a questo menestrello americano, più che a chiunque altro. Sono stato un allievo di Portelli a Roma nei late 70s, è lui che mi ha fatto scoprire il folk revival e Woody Guthrie, il mondo dietro e at...

Vasco Rossi’s Modena Park means 220.000 paying spectators at the concert. Is this a modern-day Woodstock or just a megalomaniac product? Is the rebellious spirit of Woodstock still here or are the children-parents-grandparents singing al...

Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present by John DickieMy rating: 5 of 5 stars ... a wise traveller should bring this book with him on an Italian holiday and read it while tann...

When the folk revival and then the rock revolution of the 60s arrived in Italy, it landed in Modena. Amid Ferrari and Maserati cars, balsamic vinegar producers, tortellini restaurants and small industrial enterprises scattered around the...