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

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, ...

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

Books that feature objects as narrators or central storytelling devices offer a unique literary experience. These narratives ...

"Kundera’s journey as an author is illustrative of the same human complexity he painstakingly recreates in his characters." Charlie Bennett discusses the life of Czech and French author Milan Kundera.

An Italo Calvino quote, and one of the house’s core tenets, guided Massimo Giorgetti’s FW25 MSGM collection: “Lightness is not superficiality.” Looking to elevate through weightlessness – of ...

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 ...

Mallika Sarabha celebrates Darpana's 75th year with Meanwhile Elsewhere, a new production inspired by an Italo Calvino novel ...

"Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice”, said Marco Polo to Kublai Khan in Italo Calvino’s seminal book, Invisible Cities. Once the heart of a powerful maritime ...

Il traduttore è il più importante alleato. È lui che mi introducee al mondo!” - Italo Calvino [Without translation I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most ...

The exhibit is an essay on the ‘Six Memos Italo Calvino’ left us for this Millennium. It is a cathartic stream of reflection on the vastness of my own emotions, the extremes of my dreams and fears, ...