This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like this one: Upon accessing the portal (which doesn’t seem to have a formal name, so I...

Anne Milano Appel discusses Sandro Veronesi's "cover version" of a story by Dino Buzzati.

The story begins in the 1990s, not long after the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of twelve new democracies. In this climate, the Soviet-born, U.S.-based artists Komar and Melamid cooked…

Attorneys told the court that the settlement claims rate had grown to nearly 93%, while the opt-out and objection rates were "minuscule," a strong sign that the deal meets the standard of being "fair,...

New titles from Mexico, Italy, Brazil, South Korea, Chile, Egypt, Cameroon, France, Slovenia, Austria, and Argentina!

Anne Milano Appel in conversation with translators Max Lawton and Francesco Pacifico

On an AI panel at Parix Audio Day in Madrid in February, Ralf Biesemeier noted that he was beginning to become disenchanted with AI. In this original essay, he shares why.

Anne Milano Appel— Translating Claudio Magris’ Blameless was not the first time I had the honor and happy privilege of working with this magnanimous author (a word I use in... READ MORE

In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality an...

Del Giudice recreates an existing landscape in miniature to play around with his protagonist.

Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel, finally available in English, creates a magical tension between an active life and the contemplative act of writing

A researcher arrives in Trieste to piece together the life of a well-known literary figure. In cafés, bookshops and hospitals he visits the friends and lovers who were part of the writer’s circle. Now...

A Fictional Inquiry tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste and London to retrace the footsteps of a fabled literary figure. The novel is inspired by the life of Trieste-born Roberto (“Bobi”)…

Loredana Polezzi reviews Daniele Del Giudice's book "A Fictional Journey" (Lo stadio di Wimbledon), translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel.

One last post on "decline of literature" discourse...

John G. Turner explores Molly Worthen’s “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump.”

Mentre i tribunali cavillano sulla legittimità dell'uso di opere protette dal diritto d'autore per addestrare i cosiddetti LLM (Large Language Models) e le associazioni di categoria internazionali ...

The author discusses his story “Elias.”