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, ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

Let’s just call the Abu Dhabi event what it is, the Italo Ferreira exhibition contest. If the Surf Abu Dhabi owners wanted to entertain a couple of rich clients (god knows they have a few), they’d ...

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 ...

One lad chases a hare into the forest and stumbles upon a mysterious palace with a silent,occasionally naked, yet heavily veiled chatelaine; a cattleman turns out to have a secret past; a third ...