is a freelance author living in New York. His recent book, The Future of the Past, explores the cultural consequences of technological changes and their effect on our relationship to the historic past. Several chapters of this book appeared earlier in abridged form in The New Yorker. Stille is also author of Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian-Jewish Families Under Fascism (Penguin), which won the 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Award for general non-fiction, and Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (Vintage), that was published in 1995. Stille writes regularly for the art and philosophy pages of the The New York Times and for The New York Review of Books.