Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel The Baron in the Trees, architect Mariana de Delás’s treehouse-like apartment is a playful ...

The retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a cyber-city trip where reality meets the virtual in the glow of ...

Illustrator Thomas Hayman was commissioned to reimagine some of the Italian author’s best-known works to celebrate what would’ve been his 100th birthday Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and ...

In Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan are sitting comfortably, the former regaling the latter with descriptions of the impossible places he has visited. Khan asks Polo ...

The case of WG Sebald is somewhere between the two. When Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was just achieving his deserved fame as the author of remarkable prose works including ...

Holding a well-worn copy of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities—Marco Polo’s recounting to Kublai Khan in brief prose poems ...

"I must say that at the beginning, especially, writers were interested in my work; Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, all those people. They were my first fans," Luigi Serafini says from ...

The premature death of Italo Calvino made front-page news in Italy. In the Corriere della Sera John Updike, the writer responsible for introducing him to the Americans, wrote that Calvino’s death had ...

With Meanwhile Elsewhere, based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, conceived and directed by Yadavan Chandran, the festival witnessed a great start. “This play began as a whisper – a longing to ...