This week’s story, “The Boundary,” is about a teen-age girl who is the daughter of immigrants. Her parents are the caretakers for a holiday house—in Italy, we assume—and, as the story opens, the girl ...

Jhumpa Lahiri opted for a more visceral description in “In Other Words,” the first book she wrote in Italian. English was “a hairy, smelly teenager” menacing her nascent Italian, she wrote, which she ...

EVER since the late Middle Ages, Italy has been giving the world great works of literature, but books were for centuries chiefly the concern of the more prosperous, and, to a degree, this is still ...

Writing is delicate work, perhaps doubly so when you are writing in a language that is not your native tongue. But Jhumpa Lahiri is no ordinary writer, and her latest novel, "Whereabouts" (Knopf, 176 ...

When seven-foot tall NBA star Andrea Bargnani ducked to enter a University of Toronto Mississauga classroom, he was greeted by 21 students — all speaking in near-perfect Italian. “It was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When Casa Belvedere’s program director Beatrice Alecci asked Maria Giura to host a writing workshop, the title came immediately to the author — “Writing the Italian in Your ...

Tell me about yourself and the many things that you do. I’m a novelist and journalist as well as the Editor-in-Chief of two publications: Appetito: Italian Food & Drink (which I co-founded) and ...

NANJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Accompanied by nods and sometimes laughter from the audience, a curly-haired young Italian man introduced his new book about his over six-year experiences in China in a ...