Janna Brancolini is an American journalist based in Milan, Italy, where she is a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg Law. Her essays and photography have also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Business Insider, and other publications.

Janna Brancolini

Whatever Weapon: On Gender and Italian Literature

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Hybrid Authoritarianism

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Janna Brancolini is an American journalist based in Milan, Italy, where she is a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg Law. Her essays and photography have also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Business Insider, and other publications.