Alizah Holstein is a historian and author of the memoir My Roman History (Viking Press, 2024). Growing up (mostly) in Boston, it was reading Dante’s Inferno at 17 that first inspired her to study Italian, literature, and medieval history. Alizah holds a PhD in history from Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing & literary translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing can be found in LitHub, Hamilton Arts & Letters, World Literature Today, and MarketWatch. To her own occasional surprise, she lives with her family in Providence, RI, which everyone knows is the literary capital of the U.S. Website: www.alizahholstein.com. Email: alizah.holstein [at] gmail [dot] com
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by Alizah Holstein When a statement was issued last November stipulating that a new U.S. government department known by the acronym DOGE was to be formed, the medievalist in me snapped to attention. To me, “doge” was a word with distinctly medieval meaning. But hardly anywhere was this meaning being explored in the context of…
by Alizah Holstein A pandemic has swept the land, talk of apocalypse abounds. A charismatic political figure with a penchant for opulence and known for captivating the populace with speeches about reviving the old empire is embarking upon his second stint in power. In his crosshairs is the political establishment, and under his rule the…