Read with relishMax, Mischa and the wave of beautiful books that everyone’s talking aboutJohan Harstad’s latest novel, widely read and equally beloved, truly deserves its success. What can we learn from a literary phenomenon that is nothing but a cause for celebration?byMarco Archetti5 SEP 26
pagesTragedy in a room. Rediscovering Glenway WescottA writer of boundless vitality: seventy years with the same partner, the ménage à trois, the enormous success and fame, now a thing of the past. The great writer and his masterpiece, “Appartamento ad Atene”byMarco Archetti29 AUG 26
Lives straight out of a novel, in a hotelHotels are part of our collective imagination, and literature has drawn on thisThe enigmatic characters of Roth’s Savoy, the drama of Simenon’s Majestic, the hidden horrors of King’s Overlook. The relationship between places of hospitality and novels is not merely about opulence, but, more generally, draws on the symbolic power of a place that mimics a home yet, in reality, merely serves as a waystationbyMarco Archetti22 AUG 26
character without requirementsJohn Fante, or free and uninhibited literatureSummer 2026: time for a re-read. Don’t wait until spring to rediscover Bandini and his struggle with lifebyMarco Archetti15 AUG 26
SOMETHING TO READA philosophy course in six and a quarter hoursA review of the book by Witold Gombrowicz, published by Bompiani, 160 pp., 12 eurosbyMarco Archetti12 AUG 26
the dissident authorUnderstanding Putin’s language with Mikhail ShishkinOne of Russia’s great living writers reveals the peculiar relationship between words and meanings in the world of the Kremlin. How many lies has the West swallowed?byMarco Archetti8 AUG 26
