John Foot’s magisterial account of Italy’s communist radicals, The Red Brigades, matches its detailed scholarship with gripping prose Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also ...

On 17 February 2003, a 39-year-old Egyptian man was walking down a quiet street in suburban Milan on his way to daily prayers. His real name was Osama Nasr, but he was known as Abu Omar. He was a ...

If Italy is scarcely a geographical archipelago, perhaps the term is useful to identify the varied social, cultural and political landscape of the country. Italy is a singularly difficult nation to ...

Readers of the incredible story of Adriano Sofri, Ovidio Bompressi and Giorgio Pietrostefani, told by Carlo Ginzburg in the LRB of 3 April, may be interested to know how they can obtain further ...