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The Madonnas of Librino
Agata Di Bella. May 2022.
In Sicily, a hardscrabble neighborhood is transformed into a veneration of its mothers.
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Issue: Summer 2025 / Volume 101/2
Published: November 13, 2025
Lynn Johnson is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. She was a Knight Fellow at Ohio University and teaches at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Bianca Stancanelli is a Sicilian journalist living in Rome. She began her career in Palermo at the newspaper L’Ora, then moved to Rome as a special envoy for the newsmagazine Panorama. She has published two volumes of short stories as well as A testa alta (Einaufi, 2015), the...
Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator of Italian and French works. He has translated dozens of articles for The New York Review of Books and close to forty novels for Europa Editions. He has translated many novels that were awarded Italy’s highest literary award, the Strega Prize. He is...