Suffocating secrets prey upon family love and loyalty in this sympathetically drawn, though ultimately lumbering first volume of a projected Revere Beach Trilogy. Over the course of one week, Merullo ...

Roland Merullo is the author of 21 novels and seven books of nonfiction. With his older daughter he writes a Substack ...

Americans in Italy tend to avoid Naples. The southern metropolis is most notorious for its Mafia, the subject of the streaming series "Gomorrah." This unhappy reputation circulates even among people ...

I drove across the country to bear witness — to speak with those living their ordinary lives amid the darkness of the Trump ...

Drawing from his previous road trip series, Merullo (Breakfast with Buddha) weaves a quirky but uplifting story in which Paolo de Padova, first assistant and cousin to Pope Francis, is asked to whisk ...

In the space of just over two months, prolific author Roland Merullo has sent forth two novels so different that you initially wonder if he has a colleague with the identical name. How else to account ...

A nasty bout of Covid-19 swept through the Merullo household in December 2020, making traditional Christmas celebrations a bit of a problem. The Merullo capofamiglia, the Massachusetts writer Roland ...

Roland Merullo had largely forgotten the disturbing sight of a small child being mistreated by his mother outside a store in rural New England -- until the memory welled up some 25 years later to help ...

In some parts of the world, April might actually be the cruelest month, as T.S. Eliot wrote, but here in the high hills of western New England, it’s the month when we start playing golf again. In ...