A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs shifting to reflect the times.
This afternoon in Paris (29 Janaury 2025), the Italian designer hit new heights with an eclectic, era-traversing couture ...
The retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a cyber-city trip where reality meets the virtual in the glow of ...
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel The Baron in the Trees, architect Mariana de Delás’s treehouse-like apartment is a playful ...
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 ...
Two centennial commemorative volumes, co-edited by Kolhapur’s Chandrakant Langare, bring 41 global scholars under one roof to ...
Opinion
Capital’s faces
Decades pass and, although Capital has often been described as an outdated text, the debate surrounding this book persists.
Kureishi begins the book with a brief description of his fall and his horror at realising what had happened when he regained ...
This 500-page book was like if Italo Calvino and David Foster Wallace had a literary baby. It was absurd and compelling and I really enjoyed it. This novel follows Slide, a barber who moves to the ...
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 ...