For the February issue of Harper’s Magazine, Dan Piepenbring reviews Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome by Martha Feldman. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the review. An excerpt appears below:

“Feldman provides an exceptional guide to a culture that produced castrati only to discard them, and to the haunted sense of too-lateness that left Moreschi outside his own life.”