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American Extraction: How We Pull Teeth Across Borders
American Extraction: How We Pull Teeth Across Borders
Donald Trump's decision to invade Venezuela and extract Nicolás Maduro for trial on American soil marks yet another chapter in a well-worn playbook. The operation itself was executed with characteristic... Read more...
Henry Miller: The Unprintable Prophet
Henry Miller: The Unprintable Prophet
He wrote books too dirty to publish, lived a life too messy to admire, and left a legacy too complicated to dismiss. Henry Miller claimed he was not writing literature... Read more...
A Year of Building, Becoming, and Bold Beginnings
A Year of Building, Becoming, and Bold Beginnings
Casa Carlini entered the year with a handful of bold ideas and considerable determination. Looking back now, what actually emerged feels both surprising and gratifying. What began as a publishing... Read more...
Climbing the Ladder, Not Riding the Elevator: Rethinking China’s Political Meritocracy vs. U.S. Democracy
Climbing the Ladder, Not Riding the Elevator: Rethinking China’s Political Meritocracy vs. U.S. Democracy
In America, we often reach for a single word as shorthand for China—authoritarian. It slips easily into speeches and editorials, a catch-all judgment that flatters our own sense of political... Read more...
5 Books That Prove Barbara Tuchman is a Master of History
5 Books That Prove Barbara Tuchman is a Master of History
History, in the wrong hands, can be a ledger of the dead. In the hands of Barbara Tuchman, it is a vibrant inquest into the living patterns of human folly,... Read more...
Sergio Larraín: The Photographer Who Vanished Into Light
Sergio Larraín: The Photographer Who Vanished Into Light
He captured the world with rare precision, then walked away from it. The result was a body of work that feels like revelation and disappearance. There are photographers who document... Read more...
The Case for Decentralized Journalism
The Case for Decentralized Journalism
For generations, journalism has been democracy's watchdog. Reporters asked hard questions, exposed corruption, and forced the powerful to explain themselves. The relationship was never perfect, but it worked. Someone was... Read more...
Barbara Tuchman: The Amateur Who Mastered History
Barbara Tuchman: The Amateur Who Mastered History
She turned the past into literature and literature into insight, reminding readers that history is not a procession of dates but a mirror held to human folly. Barbara Tuchman never... Read more...
Italo Svevo: The Man Who Couldn’t Quit
Italo Svevo: The Man Who Couldn’t Quit
He failed in business, struggled in literature, and never quite escaped the feeling of being out of step, yet from that uneasy distance he forged a voice that still feels... Read more...
What Makes a Book Happen (Before Anyone Ever Sees It)
What Makes a Book Happen (Before Anyone Ever Sees It)
Every year at Casa Carlini begins the same way: with ideas that are still unformed, voices still finding their shape, and projects that exist more as intention than artifact. A... Read more...
The Gospel According to Murray Kempton
The Gospel According to Murray Kempton
He dressed like a Victorian undertaker, wrote like a 19th-century Jesuit in love with jazz, and filed columns with the precision of a man polishing cathedral glass, even when writing... Read more...
Silent Verdicts: Casa Carlini Reintroduces the Enduring Power of Grazia Deledda
Silent Verdicts: Casa Carlini Reintroduces the Enduring Power of Grazia Deledda
Long before questions of gender, faith, and personal freedom entered modern literary conversation, Grazia Deledda was already writing novels that confronted them with quiet, unyielding force. Her stories unfold not... Read more...