Queer Appetites: Embodied Desire in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico A. Beneventi

Drawing upon José Esteban Mufioz’s notion of queer futurity, this article examines the links between memory, food, and sexuality in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging. The memoir depicts how embodiment and affect are imprinted in memory and recirculated...

What Does it Mean to Be White in America: My Multi-Metamorphoses

Article | Contributor(s): Gil Fagiani

Gil Fagiani is a storyteller by nature and by craft, both of which he employs in his essay My Muli-Metamorphoses, a version of which originally appeared in the anthology What Does it Mean to Be White in America (Two Leaf Press). Fagiani traces the dramatic arc of his transformation from a...

Cross My Heart

Article | Contributor(s): Eufemia Fantetti

Linked by a series of idiomatic expressions used to describe sadness, loss and love, “Cross My Heart” is a lyric essay delving into the world of journaling bad decisions and broken relationships. A deep and private self appears in diaries; intense curiosity makes resisting the off-limit contents...

Blindsided by the American Dream

Article | Contributor(s): Maria Lisella

In her essay “Shades, Color and Internal Dialogues in White America,” from which the present contribution is taken, Maria Lisella takes a savvy streetwise approach to balancing feminism with political consciousness. By sifting through the nuances and politics of her own body language in what...

The Motorcycle

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

La moto

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton, Luisa Marino

Rules, Not to Be Broken

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

Advice from a Brigantessa

Article | Contributor(s): Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

“My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

Article | Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

A Family Secret

Article | Contributor(s): Nic Battigelli

Wind Lover

Article | Contributor(s): Carmela Circelli

The Visitor

Article | Contributor(s): Domenic Cusmano

Toys of War

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Pepe

An Excerpt from the Script Loving Crazy

Article | Contributor(s): Theresa Carilli

Le mie radici nel “Soo”

Article | Contributor(s): Rosetta Rosati

Myth & Memory

Article | Contributor(s): Silvia Falsaperla

Il satiro danzante di Mazara e l’antica Morgantina

Article | Contributor(s): Emilio Sarli

Last Supper in Cori

Article | Contributor(s): Pietro Vitelli

Smell of Roses at Night

Article | Contributor(s): Delia De Santis

Michelle Alfano on Her Memoir, The Unfinished Dollhouse

Article | Contributor(s): Liana Cusmano

Liana Cusmano’s interview with Toronto author Michelle Alfano offers reflections on gender identity and living through a child’s transitioning. The act of writing helped Alfano overcome the distress she felt during this difficult time. In her memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse, Michelle Alfano...