Author: Basilio Korman

Basilio Korman is a journalist based in Turin, Italy.

Vaffanculo, 2020

By Basilio Korman
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Lockdown shopping. Ground zero, Milano.

Summer 2020 arrived late. Or at least that’s the way we felt. We’d been stuck in Torino because of COVID since the end of February.  (More…)

Preaching Truth to Falsehood

By Basilio Korman
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Rosanna Rossanda. Paris, 2009.

Rossana Rossanda, the self-described “girl from the past century”, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, was many things. First and foremost, she was a Communist intellectual and a Communist militant. (More…)

Survival in Turin

By Basilio Korman
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Social distancing used to be about class. Balon, Aurora.

I’m in the second week of self-imposed Coronavirus isolation, and the fourth day of the nationwide lockdown mandated by the Italian government to stop – or at least slow – the epidemic. (More…)

Future Italian Past

By Basilio Korman
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Screenshot from Giuda's Wild Tiger Woman video.

E.V.A. , by Rome’s Giuda (Judas), sounds all-too-familiar. Not because it’s trite or unoriginal, because it isn’t. (More…)