Alexander Stille

In it, Stille recounts the histories of several Italian families to explore the "paradoxical quality of Jewish life in fascist Italy—a highly tolerant country that suddenly embraced anti-Semitism, the chief ally of Nazi Germany, which had staunchly refused to cooperate with the deportation of Jews.

It focuses on the events leading up to the major crackdown against the criminal organization in the 1990s following the bloodthirsty reign of Salvatore Riina and was dedicated in part to the memory of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

[7] The events outlined in the book were turned into two movies of the same name: a fictionalized 1999 HBO Pictures account, starring Chazz Palminteri as Falcone,[8] and a 2005 documentary directed by Marco Turco.

"Trying to show the double-edged nature of technological change in a series of different contexts and from a number of odd angles", he appraised subjects as varied as historical monuments in Egypt, China, and Italy, environmental preservation efforts in India and Madagascar, and repositories of collective knowledge, including the Vatican Library and the U.S. National Archives.

[13] Stille himself considered the comparison in a 2016 essay for The Intercept, noting that "both [Trump and Berlusconi] are billionaires who made their initial fortunes in real estate, whose wealth and playboy lifestyles turned them into celebrities" with "improbable inter-class appeal", while also exploring how "the almost total deregulation of broadcast media" in Italy and the U.S. helped create conditions that each of them could use to their political advantage.

"[2] In The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune (2023), Stille examines the turbulent history of a radical psychotherapy group, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, whose "founders wanted to start a revolution ... grounded in ideals of creative expression, sexual liberation, and freedom from societal norms" and by the 1960s had become "an urban commune of hundreds of people [on Manhattan's Upper West Side], with patients living with other patients, leading creative, polyamorous lives.