Kureishi begins the book with a brief description of his fall and his horror at realising what had happened when he regained ...

Decades pass and, although Capital has often been described as an outdated text, the debate surrounding this book persists.

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

Books & the Arts / In Gretel and the Great War, an antic epistolary novel set in early 20th-century Austria, the writer tries ...

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So I am escaping to Italy, where — in my head — it is always summer, every bike is a gleaming Colnago Master, and one can ...

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 ...