Italy
The Lede
Italy Has Failed to Qualify for Three Straight World Cups. Are the Country’s Immigration Policies to Blame?
After winning the tournament in 2006, gli Azzurri have become a national embarrassment, and their failure has sparked a conversation in Italy over who gets to be a citizen.
By Albert Samaha
Photo Booth
A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.
By Anika Burgess
Second Read
A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
In “The Enchanted April,” by Elizabeth von Arnim, four Englishwomen are transformed by a temporary loss of self.
By Claire Jarvis
Under Review
Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics
The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s horrors.
By Thomas Meaney
Page-Turner
Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism
During the Second World War, the Italian writer took to the radio, urging resistance to the pressures of tyranny.
By Ann Goldstein
The Front Row
“Fiume o Morte!” Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue
Igor Bezinović’s film thrusts century-old archival footage into the present, restaging the brazen reign of an autocrat whose tactics feel startlingly resonant today.
By Richard Brody
The Sporting Scene
The Italian Renaissance in Men’s Tennis
Italy boasts the No. 1 player in the world, and has as many players in the Top Forty as the United States. It’s not an accident.
By Gerald Marzorati
The New Yorker Documentary
Friendship and Hard Work Amid Italy’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, in “Fratelli Carbonai”
A young man from Mali carves out a life for himself in an ancient trade in the Calabrian mountains, when the nation’s politics take a hard right turn.
The Front Row
The Counterculture Counter Culture of Kim’s Video
A new documentary revels in the legend of the downtown rental store and seeks to recover its treasures.
By Richard Brody
The Current Cinema
The Enchanting Archeological Romance of “La Chimera”
The ghosts of the past haunt Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, which stars Josh O’Connor as a tomb raider nursing a broken heart.
By Justin Chang
The Current Cinema
Two African Migrants’ Fantastical, Harrowing Odyssey in “Io Capitano”
Matteo Garrone’s epic about two young Senegalese cousins attempting to reach Italy is his finest film since “Gomorrah.”
By Justin Chang
Photo Booth
The Freedom to See Rome Anew
An American photographer brings a fresh eye to an ancient city.
By Paul Elie
Cover Story
Diana Ejaita’s “Lines of Beauty”
The artist discusses dynamism and immersing oneself in the world.
By Françoise Mouly
This Week in Fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri on Parties as Parentheses
The author discusses “P’s Parties,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
By Cressida Leyshon
The Front Row
Shia LaBeouf Discovers the Political Power of Catholic Ecstasy in “Padre Pio”
Abel Ferrara’s Italian period piece is scattershot but undeniably passionate.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
“The Eight Mountains” Is Not a Movie So Much as a Series of Postcards
The story of a lifelong friendship between two men is pretty and vacant.
By Richard Brody
Cultural Comment
Did Starbucks Really Put Olive Oil in Coffee?
The new Starbucks Oleato is terrible. But somehow there’s pleasure to be had in its existence.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Culture Desk
A Mets Fan Grows in Italy
My young son loves the Mets from afar, but does he understand baseball heartbreak?
By Jason Horowitz
Q. & A.
“I’m a Woman, I’m a Mother, I’m Christian”: How Giorgia Meloni Took Control in the Italian Election
The country has chosen its most right-wing government since the Second World War. Will political dysfunction temper extremism?
By Isaac Chotiner
Rabbit Holes
The Italy That’s Revealed by Italians on Social Media
A teacher in Tuscany collects the strange and beautiful images that capture what he calls “a marginal Italy.”
By Max Norman