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Roberto Saviano and the Problems of Italian America

(03 01 2012) Anthony Julian Tamburri

Along with the various observations that have been made by three of our esteemed colleagues (De Stefano, Gardaphé, Krase), and I must emphasize that I am in agreement as well...

Silence Is Not the Answer

(22 12 2011) Fred Gardaphe

Saviano is right. Silence is not the answer; protesting dramatic portrayals of mafiosi is not the answer. Italian Americans have spent more time and money fighting fictional...

Sodom versus Gomorra

(21 12 2011) Jerry Krase

In the second of a series of commentaries by Italian-American intellectuals on Roberto Saviano's recent talk about Mafia at the New York University, Jerry Krase “agree(s)...

Massimo Ciancimino: Dynamite in the Garden of Justice

(29 04 2011) Judith Harris

The three years of Ciancimino's testimony in three separate Mafia trials risk being compromised

On both sides of the Atlantic, pride in anti-mob action

(31 01 2011) Judith Harris

While in New York nearly 125 are arrested in “the largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history" Italian Senator and former governor of Sicily Salvatore Cuffaro is sentenced to 7 years...

Conversando con Carlo Lucarelli

(25 11 2010) Letizia Airos

Ci siamo seduti a parlare di romanzi gialli, "rompiscatole", televisione e politica italiana con il noto scrittore di noir e conduttore TV. Questa la nostra conversazione, quasi...

Giancarlo Caselli: Sciascia and the Palermo anti-Mafia pool

(16 11 2010) Judith Harris

In the article "The Anti-Mafia Professionals", appeared on the national daily Il Corriere della Sera, Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia attacked Borsellino when he requested a...

Games, Media, and Politics. Does "Mafia II" Defame Italian Americans? Interview with Andre' DiMino

(28 08 2010) Ottorino Cappelli

Several Italian-American organizations are staging an anti-defamation campaign against the videogame "Mafia II" on the ground that it offends, discriminates, and stereotypes...

Falcone and Borsellino Die Again

(19 07 2010) Judith Harris

On July 18, the day before the l8th anniversary of the murder of Judge Paolo Borsellino, the statues commemorating him and another emblematic victim of the Sicilian Mafia, Judge...

Panto Remembered

(18 07 2010) Joey Skee

A new book about the New York City waterfront recalls the Italian-American fight against organized crime.

Mafia, Kinds of Applause & Saviano's Quotes

(29 04 2010) Judith Harris

A confusion of applause: ovation at Perugia for Italy’s heroic Roberto Saviano and hurrahs at Reggio for arrested ’Ndrangheta boss Giovanni Tegano

Move over, Tony Soprano—you’ve had it

(25 03 2010) Judith Harris

The era of the Corleonesi is definitely at an end. We are witnessing the mutation of the Mafia strategy into one that is clearly based on finance. (Antonio Ingroia, Prosecutor)

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