Menzel had come upon the story of Julia Butterfly Hill, an environmental activist who lived in a California redwood tree for ...

The end of the Second World War heralded the Atomic Era, where testing and concerns about nuclear weapons spread worldwide.

School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have ...

Columnist Dani Garavelli on a city rebirth and why Glaswegians need to get off the sidelines and prove People Make Glasgow.

Italo Calvino's enchanting collection of five short stories. Omnibus of dramatisations by Toby Jones. From a translation by William Weaver. * MUSHROOMS IN THE CITY - Marcovaldo finds mushrooms ...

When Tilted Axis released the translation by Jeremy Tiang in 2020, it drew admiring reviews and comparison to works by Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Tilted Axis embraced the novel’s ...

He is a late son of the postmodernist tradition that gave birth to writers such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. He shares with them a predilection for intertextual play, mixing genres and ...

The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey. Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan.

In a penetrating stare through her new novel, a blistering page-turner entitled Dream Count, Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie goes for literary greatness. There is her usual lyricism, ...

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