The longer form of Italian journalism: the pieces that take time and space to do something a quick guide cannot. A profile of a wine dynasty that has been making Barolo since before Italian unification. A reported piece on the architects rebuilding earthquake-damaged towns in a way that honours their pre-war form. An essay on why the Sunday lunch, that most Italian of institutions, is becoming something different in the hands of the generation that grew up with it.Features here are written with the assumption that the reader is genuinely interested, capable of handling complexity, and does not need the conclusion signposted before it arrives. These are the articles worth reading slowly, and worth reading again after you have visited the place or eaten the dish they describe.
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