Olivia Nuzzi, American Canto (2025)
Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto (2025) is part memoir and part contemporary history, describing her insider’s take on the rise of Donald Trump in the last decade and her “digital affair” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that would end her career as a journalist for New York magazine. The title is a nod to Dante’s Commedia, as the New York Times makes clear in a Nov. 2025 profile of Nuzzi:
“Nuzzi, 32, lives in a tiny house in the heart of Malibu where lizards crawl into her kitchen and the King James Bible and The Divine Comedy — two books she was reading while she was writing American Canto — sit on her dining room table. She drives around in a white Mustang convertible, like a Lana Del Rey song come to life.” –Jacob Bernstein, “Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love,” New York Times, November 14, 2025
Of the book, Simon & Schuster writes: “A mesmerizing firsthand account of the warping of American reality over the past decade as Donald Trump has risen to dominance—from a participatory witness who got so far inside the distortion field that it swallowed her whole.”
Sighting Citation:
“Olivia Nuzzi, American Canto (2025).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. November 14, 2025. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-2025/.