Italys

Palermo: An undercover polentona

A conversation overheard on Italy's 'Meridian Question' sparks a deeper internal debate on identity and what it means to be Italian

Out of sight, out of mind?

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

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

“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

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

The delirious mythology of Italian brainrot

How AI chimeras, absurd nursery rhymes, and Gen Z humour has birthed a chaotic new online aesthetic Even in a world overrun by online content, the viral surge of so-called

Quiet guardians of Venice’s living waters

In this intimate portrait of the sandolo and the boatmen who preserve Venice’s oldest waterborne tradition, Carola Cappellari and Lavinia Nocelli explore its fading yet resilient legacy of craft, rhythm

Body control

An Italian journalist takes a critical look at the ambient religious and political culture around “natural” methodologies of fertility management. On its website, the secular sounding Italian Confederation of Centres

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