THE EXHIBITIONAmong Brigitte Bardot’s belongings at the Hotel DrouotThe collection includes numerous drawings and lithographs depicting BB by great 20th-century artists such as Sempé and Aslan, as well as the humble everyday objects that were part of the actress’s daily life and which she affectionately called ‘merdouilles’. The items are on display in Paris ahead of the auction on 21 September. byMauro Zanon15 SEP 26
decoder – an atlas of pop cultureFrom school to hellThree weekly recommendations for exploring comics, film and TV, and games, helping readers navigate the vast universe of pop culture and the stories that are shaping the contemporary imagination. Today: the manga "GTO – Great Teacher Onizuka", the new "Resident Evil" film and the video game "Marvel’s Wolverine", a PlayStation 5 exclusive.byGianluca De Angelis15 SEP 26
in bookshopsShe wanted them to be sermons, not essays. Oriana’s voice, twenty years on11 September and the ‘two Fallacis’: Alessandro Gnocchi’s memoir on the twentieth anniversary of the death of the journalist and writerbyFrancesco Palmieri15 SEP 26
OASIS 27Oasis in Rome on 29 and 30 July: the two dates are now officialThirty-eight concerts have been announced across Europe, the UK, Ireland and the US. Liam and Noel Gallagher will be at the Stadio Olimpico for two summer dates, eighteen years on from their 2009 concert at the PalaLottomatica. Gualtieri: “The city is increasingly becoming the capital of great live music.”byRedazione14 SEP 26
Reading exercises/18The New World DisorderHybrid wars, the challenge of climate change, the expansion of global spheres of influence, and new digital powers with no public roots. All the risks of an unstable present and the erosion of mature democraciesbySabino Cassese14 SEP 26
MAGAZINEWar Requiem. Britten at La Scala whilst Germany returns to black and whiteIts eerie timing makes it sound like an epitaph to the future. A requiem of condemnation of war, but not only that: something deeper and more complex, as elusive and mysterious as he himself was, despite his impeccable composurebyAlberto Riva14 SEP 26
MAGAZINEMonsieur Cartoon. Asterix & Obelix, the Wild West and the schoolboy who looks just like SarkozyRené Goscinny used comics to play with history and bring joy to the French people. This year marks the centenary of his birth. As a boy, he realised he wanted to be a scriptwriter when he heard it described as a job ‘that any old fool could do’. Today, that phrase is engraved on an obelisk in AngoulêmebyGiulio Silvano14 SEP 26
ODD FACESEva Caianiello: “My father, a pioneer of cybernetics between the United States and Naples”A pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, the Neapolitan Eduardo Renato Caianiello made a significant contribution to the development of Italian physics in the second half of the 20th century. “The house in Posillipo where I grew up was a hub for scientists from all over the world.” InterviewbyFrancesco Palmieri13 SEP 26
The editorial from ‘L’Elefantino’Pascal’s ‘thinking reed’ and the superhuman power of AIEverything that seems immense and terrible may end up being encoded today in a deified algorithm, a new fallen angel. Is there really an existential problem facing humankind? We ought to discuss it rationally, but it is not easybyGiuliano Ferrara13 SEP 26
MagazineThe visionaries of Weimar, a century ahead of Musk and Thiel’s futurist dreamsScience fiction was all the rage in Germany between the two world wars. The right, in particular, was running wild with scientific and technological fantasies. The left-wing government, on the other hand, had neither the time nor the appetite for grand dreams of the future. The same is happening today in Trump’s America.bySiegmund Ginzberg12 SEP 26
