Decades pass and, although Capital has often been described as an outdated text, the debate surrounding this book persists.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 ...

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Natalia Ginzburg, then an editor at the Italian publishing house Einaudi, received an 800-page brick of a manuscript from an ...

Objects described in literature by renowned authors, poets and playwrights as background details in their respective works have taken physical shape in the creative interpretations by designers at an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery was published in 1948, the postwar Italian literary landscape was ...

This is most obvious when considering the metafictional games he plays when he riffs upon Nabokov and Borges and other experimental writers such as Virginia Wolff, Italo Calvino, John Barth ...

Mark Twain called a classic a book which people praise but don’t read, while Italo Calvino remarked, “The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: “I’m ...

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel The Baron in the Trees, architect Mariana de Delás’s treehouse-like apartment is a playful experimentation of height, light, colours and material.

I believe metaverse planners can find inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, in which he revealed a poetic and mathematical approach to “urban planning” in the imaginary worlds.

The main highlight of the store is the interior concept which was meticulously designed by Taiwanese architect Powen Hsiao, who drew his inspiration from Italo Calvino’s famous work, known as ...