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Saviano’s Eyes

Robert Viscusi

Roberto Saviano has the eyes of a prophet who has seen Italy plain. Gramsci in jail, Dante in hell. This is the Italy where Popes die mysteriously and there are secret cities...

NYU: Saviano and Roubini. Mafia, Banks & Economic Crises (video excerpts)

Gomorrah's writer met with students, professors and journalists at New York University's Paulson Auditorium. He talked about mafia and its impact on the current financial crisis.

Roberto Saviano and the Problems of Italian America

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...

FULL VIDEO! Saviano at NYU with Roubini. Criminal Economy and Mafia.

Gomorrah's writer met with students, professors and journalists at New York University's Paulson Auditorium. He talked about mafia and its impact on the financial crisis.

On Roberto Saviano, Italy's Anti-Mafia Struggle, and Italian-American Anti-Defamation Activism

George DeStefano

In the first of a series of commentaries by Italian-American intellectuals on Roberto Saviano's recent talk about Mafia at the New York University, George DeStefano holds that...

Sodom versus Gomorra

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, sociologist Jerome Krase...

Silence Is Not the Answer

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...

Saviano & Roubini – Do New York ... Literati love the ‘Shtick’

Tom Verso

In U.S. House of Representatives – “Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Committee” – hearings on December 15, 2011, very authoritative expert witnesses in...

Parliamo di mafia. Don Ciotti con gli studenti della scuola Marconi

Letizia Airos Soria

Abbiamo accompagnato Don Ciotti, fondatore e presidente di "Libera", ad un incontro con gli studenti della Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi. Due ore intense di grande...

Lotta alla mafia. Tra Petrosino e presente

Marcello Saija

"La lotta alla mafia in Sicilia non ha fatto un passo avanti dall’omicidio di Petrosino ad oggi? Probabilmente no. Il livello di consenso sociale alle organizzazioni criminali...

Italian and American Officials Iluminate Current Antimafia Activities

Susannah Gold

Italian and American law enforcement officials, activists and lawyers brought home the reality of antimafia activities in Italy and in America at a recent conference at John Jay...

Petrosino. Between Past and Present

Marcello Saija

"The perverse logic of a political system which appears still uneven and far from genuine democracy, still is a great obstacle to the generous attempts for eradicating the Mafia...

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