Lilian Pizzichini

The Osnabrück witch trials echo down the centuries

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Absent mothers resonate in the latest offerings from two heavyweights of French literature. Getting Lost is the diary kept by…

Anna Magnani: Fellini describes her circling the Pantheon, laden with bags, feeding stray cats

The sweet life turns sour

1 April 2017 9:00 am

Shawn Levy specialises in chronicling 20th-century hotspots such as London in the Sixties and Sinatra’s Vegas. Here, he turns his…

Girls about town

27 August 2016 9:00 am

On 8 June 1920 an old beggar woman sat against a wall in Kingsway holding a mongrel in her arms…