Shahpour Pouyan in the 5th edition of Jaou Tunis

Shahpour Pouyan in the 5th edition of Jaou Tunis

Kamel Lazaar Foundation The Secret History of the Carthaginian War Elephant is the first collaborative installation and ongoing project that Shahpour Pouyan (CRF 2016) has with the novelist Anelise Chen. This new body of work creates a direct dialogue between fiction...
Du Yun Honored by Carnegie Corporation of New York

Du Yun Honored by Carnegie Corporation of New York

New York, NY Carnegie Corporation of New York released its annual list of Great Immigrants on June 28 comprised of 38 naturalized citizens who enrich the fabric of American culture and strengthen our democracy through their lives, their work, and their example, and...
Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays

Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays

Times Book Review Alexander Chee (CRF 2011)’s “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” is, according to the Times, “a disarming title for an essay collection by Alexander Chee, given that he’s fresh from the success of a novel that on the face...
Eliza Griswold’s New Book

Eliza Griswold’s New Book

Fellows “Her sensitive and judicious new book… is neither an outraged sermon delivered from a populist soapbox nor a pinched, professorial lecture.” Eliza Griswold (CRF 2011)’s new book is entitled “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and...
A Letter From The Director

A Letter From The Director

February, 2017   Dear Civitellians, A mild winter has settled over Civitella and many of our days are filled with mist, fog, and scattered clouds.  This is perfect hiking weather, apart from a bit of mud clinging to the soles of our shoes.  The trees are bare,...