Justin Davidson

Justin Davidson has been New York magazine’s architecture and classical music critic since 2007. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002 and is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. (September 2023)

Growing Up on Moan Street

The Naples of Domenico Starnone’s novel The House on Via Gemito is a hot-breathed, dragonlike city that keeps its children bound even after they escape.

The House on Via Gemito

by Domenico Starnone, translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky

September 21, 2023 issue

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