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

    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...

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

    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...

  3. Cross My Heart

    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...

  4. Blindsided by the American Dream

    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...

  5. The Motorcycle

    The Motorcycle

    Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

  6. La moto

    La moto

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

  7. Rules, Not to Be Broken

    Rules, Not to Be Broken

    Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

  8. Advice from a Brigantessa

    Advice from a Brigantessa

    Article | Contributor(s): Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

  9. “My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

    “My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

    Article | Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

  10. A Family Secret

    A Family Secret

    Article | Contributor(s): Nic Battigelli

  11. Wind Lover

    Wind Lover

    Article | Contributor(s): Carmela Circelli

  12. The Visitor

    The Visitor

    Article | Contributor(s): Domenic Cusmano

  13. Toys of War

    Toys of War

    Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Pepe

  14. An Excerpt from the Script Loving Crazy

    An Excerpt from the Script Loving Crazy

    Article | Contributor(s): Theresa Carilli

  15. Le mie radici nel “Soo”

    Le mie radici nel “Soo”

    Article | Contributor(s): Rosetta Rosati

  16. Myth & Memory

    Myth & Memory

    Article | Contributor(s): Silvia Falsaperla

  17. Il satiro danzante di Mazara e l’antica Morgantina

    Il satiro danzante di Mazara e l’antica Morgantina

    Article | Contributor(s): Emilio Sarli

  18. Last Supper in Cori

    Last Supper in Cori

    Article | Contributor(s): Pietro Vitelli

  19. Smell of Roses at Night

    Smell of Roses at Night

    Article | Contributor(s): Delia De Santis

  20. Michelle Alfano on Her Memoir, The Unfinished Dollhouse

    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...