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From The Hand of God to Mixed by Erry, the novels of Elena Ferrante to the gangster smash Gomorrah, the Italian city is everywhere. What’s the appeal? We hit the ‘paradise inhabited by devils’ to find out

For a deeper understanding of what’s going on, here’s what to read.

For a deeper understanding of what’s going on, here’s what to read.

Five of last year’s most groundbreaking works ranging from a city to the whole world | The Economist reads

Their subjects include financial scandals, a witness to the Holocaust and cell theory | Culture

Reviews of the year’s notable new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Death has always haunted the splendid, squalid capital of the south, making it unlike any other Italian city, says Marius Kociejowski

Marius Kociejowski captures both in his new book | Culture