IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair.
We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour.
1. Escaping the Mob
Pope Francis, along with Turin priest don Luigi Ciotti, attending a prayer vigil for victims of mafia violence in 2014. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo
Italian priest Luigi Ciotti, who leads an anti-Mafia organisation, speaks to D.T. Max about how he gives women in the Mob new identities and helps them to start a new life.
(The New Yorker, approx 39 mins reading time)
Men in the Mob generally insure that they discuss their illegal business activities out of earshot of their families, so women such as L. have often never been direct witnesses to crimes—making them ineligible for the country’s witness-protection program. Because they cannot help the state, the state won’t help them. Yet L. was in imminent peril. Mafia …