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

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

Says Landau, “I was obsessed with trees in general and had been looking at a book called The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino” in which a young boy climbs a tree to spend the rest of his ...

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 ...

I’ve been reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and thinking about how the places we inhabit are built as much from memory and desire as bricks and mortar. If all the urban dreamscapes ...

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

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 ...