My Notebooks

Novels ought to be banned by law, says the protagonist of the only novel written by Elias Canetti. They ought to be banned by law because they lead us to…

My new book, Aprile è una strana stagione (April is a strange season), published by Gramma Feltrinelli, is about to be released. It tells the story of an Italian filmmaker…

‘In a publishing landscape crowded with reconstructions, counter-investigations and narratives often bent towards sensationalism, “Il garbuglio di Garlasco” chooses a radically different interpretation: not the case as a puzzle to…

Happy to have become part of the wonderful Feltrinelli Gramma family. I couldn't have asked for a better home for my next novel. Here at the Feltrinelli headquarters in Milan,…

This is a book I return to when I want to immerse myself in the mind and culture of its protagonist, an Israeli secret agent, and in the visceral intertwining…

A month ago, I was recounting some details regarding the new phase of the investigation into Garlasco - in which they are trying to clarify the actions of the former…

"Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza," a book with exceptionally clear moral vision. It was given to me as a gift by an American Jewish friend who was passing…

Honoured that ‘Il Garbuglio di Garlasco’ won first prize on a podium that also included Francesco Sala (second place with his "Sparire a Palermo - Il caso De Mauro‘) and…

Sometimes writers are afraid to know what is inevitable: that there is no such thing as "pure" art. None of us are pure or innocent: any word that has imaginative…

A long interview with director Umberto Brindani about my novel "Il Garbuglio di Garlasco" was published yesterday in the weekly magazine "Gente," discussing how it's possible that three years ago…

A crime festival, whose founding manifesto promises to stay "away from conspiracy theories, sensationalism, and spectacularization" and to "replace rigorous investigation with morbid voyeurism." On stage, an eminent interlocutor, Marcello…