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We are in the near future. The euro has, for reasons of simplicity, the same value it had in 2022, but everything else is exactly as it...

It is May, still spring, I‘m sure, and I am ready to discuss the third instalment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet. This week, we have...

“The reason churches have so many doors is that people tend to leave churches in groups, in a hurry. It seems people have a lot of...

Set on a thousand acres of land is the Cook family’s farm, sternly ruled by patriarch Larry who teaches his daughters and their husbands...

“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...

Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...

In the 1970s everyone knows The Six. Their songs are played on every radio station, their records and world tours sell out in the blink...

In their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...

Poetic and heart-breaking. Those are the first words that come to mind when I think about Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved. I only...

"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."

I stumbled upon Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town on some reading list online – and I am so glad I did! Something...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...

I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...

It has almost been two weeks since I finished reading Naked Lunch and I am still not sure what to make of it. Therefore, the following is...

(english version below) È Stato Così di Natalia Ginzburg (pubblicato da Einaudi, 1947) è il primo libro della scrittrice dopo la fine...