This edition of the Book Club is dedicated to my Twitter friends. At the end of a visit to Naples, I tweeted an inquiry: could anyone out there recommend some explanations of why southern Italy ...

Soon Shrim connected with a network of helpers, and, by book's end, he had freed over 300 captives. Yet, as Mikhail reminds us, there are more than 4,000 who are still in captivity.

An Italian bookseller has come up with a novel way to promote recycling. Michele Gentile, who owns Ex Libris Cafe in southern Italy, is giving away free books to children in exchange for plastic ...

Journey into southern Italy’s ‘kitchen of the poor’ with Calabrian-born chef Francesco Mazzei, who lifts the lid on pots and pans simmering with delights such as stuffed calamari and ...

Italian magistrates on Sunday opened an inquiry into the causes of a fire that gutted an aristocrat's library in the southern city of Cosenza on Saturday, killing three people living in an ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- A Pittsburgh native who went searching for his roots in southern Italy did not expect to find the ruins of the Ferramonti concentration camp – where the commandant ...

"The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took On the World's Most Powerful Mafia" by Alex Perry (William Morrow Books, 333 pp., $27.99) Down in the toe of the Italian boot, in rustic Cala… ...