In the epicenter of the world financial crisis, a comedian launched a joke campaign that didn't seem so funny to the country's leading politicians . . .
It all started when Jon Gnarr founded the Best Party in 2009 to satirize his country's political system. The financial collapse in Iceland had,[...]

Winner of Grand Prix du Roman 2002, a prize awarded annually by Academie Francaise (the French counterpart of The Royal Society of Literature) Who is the real Barbara von Brandenburg, that plain woman who looks at us from Mantegna's masterful painting, The Gonzaga Family? Using historic facts and do[...]

Italy's best crime writers present nine gripping, often darkly humorous short-stories with settings ranging from Milan to Palermo by way of Rome and even Guadeloupe. These brilliant tales do not feature psychopathic cannibals or obscure power-mad sects but ordinary criminals: a drug-addled cosmetic [...]