The Shadows of Palermo: On The Neorealist in Winter and What It Means to Be Italian American Today

by SALVATORE PANE I don’t know why, but the trend these days is to build banks in strip malls. There are no vaults, no elegant ceilings, rarely more than a lone yawning teller. My financial institution looks more like a cell phone store or a child’s drawing of a bank, stripped of detail or anything …