Italians

Out of sight, out of mind?

The chilling reality of life inside an Italian migrant return hub in Albania

The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep

Venice is a video game

How the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart

The invisible borderland

Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates

Parsing justice: Linguistic violence in the courtroom

In the courtroom, language is never neutral. It can elucidate the truth or shroud it in shadow, protect the innocent or silence the vulnerable. From the arcane tangle of legal

“All that glitters is not gold”

A new wave of luxury resorts is soaking up limited water resources in the already drought-prone Italian South

Curtains on risk

How Italy's public theatre is being steered towards safety at the expense of creativity

Agius’s bet

A fascinating investigation into how a Maltese criminal recently convicted of murder tried to make his way in the pan-Mediterranean betting world

And so it flows

Sophia Smith Galer looks at an article, and a doctoral thesis, about the Venetian-origin dialect once prevalent in the city of Fiume/Rijeka, now ever more endangered Cities where many languages

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