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Inside Alessandro Michele’s showstopping debut haute couture show for Valentino
This afternoon in Paris (29 Janaury 2025), the Italian designer hit new heights with an eclectic, era-traversing couture ...
Inside Beijing-based artist Cao Fei’s virtual worlds at the ‘My City is Yours’ exhibition in Sydney
The retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a cyber-city trip where reality meets the virtual in the glow of ...
NEVER TOO SMALL on MSN5d
Architect’s Treehouse Inspired Loft Apartment, Madrid 45sqm/484sqft
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel The Baron in the Trees, architect Mariana de Delás’s treehouse-like apartment is a playful ...
The New Criterion7d
Maestro/Ambassador Muti et al.
Rosa Feola, the Italian soprano, does her part in advocating Martucci. (She is a favorite singer of Muti, by the way.) She ...
WG Sebald’s Silent Catastrophes — literary essays on Austrian writers
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 ...
Mid Day10dOpinion
Conrad’s timeless impact: A global perspective
Two centennial commemorative volumes, co-edited by Kolhapur’s Chandrakant Langare, bring 41 global scholars under one roof to ...
Kureishi begins the book with a brief description of his fall and his horror at realising what had happened when he regained consciousness
Kureishi begins the book with a brief description of his fall and his horror at realising what had happened when he regained ...
Capital’s faces
Decades pass and, although Capital has often been described as an outdated text, the debate surrounding this book persists.
Ravalli Republic13d
The Mortal Reader:I like big books and I cannot lie
The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...
The Paris Review19d
The Review’s Review
In our unreal reality, I’m inspired by a genre of compassionate absurdism: Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Leonora Carrington, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon. Another such writer is ...
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Ian Thomson
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 ...