Stille lived in Milan and in Rome in the 1980s and early 1990s reporting on Italian politics for The Boston Globe, The Toronto Globe and Mail, U.S. News & World Report and The New Yorker.
His six books are Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism about the experience of Italian Jews during the fascist period; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic about the Sicilian anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the interconnections between political corruption and organized crime that brought down the Italian political system in the early 1990s; The Future of the Past about the cultural impact of rapid technological change; The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace, a family memoir that traces the lives of his father’s family in Czarist Russia and fascist Italy and of his mother’s family in the American Midwest; The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an Urban Commune describes the forty-year history of a community that began as a psychoanalytic institute and devolved in the 1970s into something more like a cult; and The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi.
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