Real and Imaginary Homelands

I’ve been virtually leafing through Italian online newspapers during the last few days and I’ve been reading with horror about the Gheddafi visit turning into a variety show, with horses, showgirls and cotillons. The journalists of the main Italian newpapers didn’t bat an eyelid, and only talked about the glamour, with a little weak-humored skepticism … Read the full article →

No Country for Cinephiles

It must be some form of idiosyncrasy or it must be a fixation. Or it’s the former cinema student in me that has been brainwashed by manuals written by conceited scholars and critics. Whatever it is, I can’t restrain myself. Should I? I haven’t signed a deal with anybody and this site isn’t supposed to … Read the full article →

IcelandChronicles: an attempt at an introduction

The hardest part of the work is sometimes actually starting it. That’s why introductions are often the most frightening obstacle to overcome and are often postponed by authors – or even left out and written much later by somebody else that has nothing to do with the authorship of any work of his own. In … Read the full article →