The summer 2006 issue is 116 pages packed with writing to keep readers busy over those hot summer months. But beware if you go out to buy it, because women's magazine Anna has taken to using the letter A for its restyled cover; Fulvio Abbate clears up any confusion.
The issue begins with Carlo Oliva on the misuses of mythology. Antonio Cardella wonders whether it is worthwhile talking about politics today. Francesco Codello focuses on North-east Italy, a microcosm of Italy's dominant culture. Cosimo Scarinzi meditates on the need for conflicts ... and dreams.
In the wake of the electoral circus, Andrea Papi offers a reminder of the libertarian alternative.
This issue also has an 11-page dossier with photos, prepared by Marco Rovelli, about the CPT, Temporary Stay Centres, as the prisons where 'illegal' immigrants are held are called, including contributions by Erri De Luca and Moni Ovadia.
Along with the TAV, another Italian megaproject is the bridge over the Strait of Messina: Antonello Mangano and Antonio Mazzero explain the opposition to this scheme.
In 'Musica&Idee' – unusually – Marco Pandin reviews a book, Patagonia controvento by Max Mauro; more conventionally, he also reviews a number of CDs from the production of the Pezzente Prod. label. In '... e compagnia cantante', Alessio Lega discusses the collaborations in the work of Faber, maestro Fabrizio De André.
In 'Fatti&Misfatti', a report by Giordano Cotichelli on the newly inaugurated public gardens in Jesi dedicated to the memory of Sacco & Vanzetti, and Victor Ballinas on a disturbing case of violence by police against arrested women in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico.
Giovanna Boursier offers a timely reminder that it was not only Jews that were the victims of Nazism and Fascism, but also Gypsies, referred to more accurately as Roma and Sinti; the article includes photos by Paolo Poce, who is also responsible for a photoreportage on Colombia, specifically the young and old visitors to the Psychosocial Care Centre in Bogota.
Tolstoj appears for the second issue running, this time as the subject of a book, Devoto a Tolstoj, by Victor Lebrun, discussed by Felice Accame in 'A nous la liberté', along with Gandhi and Beethoven.
Roberto Zani presents his transcription of writer Maurizio Maggiani's speech at the presentation of the Dizionario biografico degli anarchici italiani in Forlì on 19 May.
Francesco Robustelli has an intriguing piece, with photographic accompaniment, on the relations between humans and animals.
David Koven, a US anarchist now in his 88th year, looks back on his past as an activist.
An extract from Stefano Boni's book, just published by Eleuthera, Vivere senza padroni, an 'anthropology of everyday subversion'.
Massimo Ortalli continues his valuable list of anarchist publications begun in issue 311. In 'Ritratti in piedi', Massimo presents writings on the figure of Sante Cesario, who attempted to assassinate French President Carnot, by Rino Gualtieri, Mario Marino-Lucca and Cesare Lombroso.
The 'Libertarian Review' has a piece by Serena Zanzu on the cinema of Lodge Kerrigan, and there is the introduction to Goffredo Fofi's book Da pochi a pochi (Eleuthera).

by Leslie Ray