The publisher of the Turin-based daily: “I’ll be including La Stampa in all my local newspapers. Only Cairo has done this before me. Virman Cusenza and Franco Bechis will soon be writing for us too. Maurizio Molinari? A genius.”

Three weekly recommendations to explore comics, audiovisual media and games, helping you find your way around the vast universe of pop culture and the stories that are shaping the contemporary imagination. Today: the graphic novel "Belmiele", the TV series "Widow’s Bay" and the video game "Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced"

From #MeToo to minority quotas, from sky-high fees to the decline of cinemas: an industry rocked by constant upheavals. What remains unchanged is the cynicism and hypocrisy, but also the ability to create genuine works of art

The professor presents a concise essay on the emblematic case of an intellectual who changed sides right up to the very end: "Piovene had pretended to be a fascist simply to become a journalist. The theory of bad faith naturally sets him apart from all those who viewed their own past as a mistake."

In “Expositio Mundi. The Exhibition as a Medium”, the works are spread out – très chic – across the Civic Museums of Palazzo Buonaccorsi, the Mozzi-Borgetti Library and the Sferisterio. An exhibition about the act of displaying, the history of exhibition design, and the presentation of art

Cast adrift amongst the clichés, stereotypes and mannerisms of recent Italian fiction

The central problem of philosophy, Newton wrote, seems to be that of discovering the forces of nature. Physics, however, does not teach us how to avoid catastrophe. That is a task that falls entirely to us

Just as in the most barbaric periods of history, war has once again become the whim or vice of political leaders who dream of being remembered like Caesar, Napoleon and other great figures of history. Simone Weil’s insight into narcissistic leaders

An intellectual, an independent and rigorous journalist, a feminist and transfeminist, and a staunch defender of civil liberties. A book commemorates the journalist, who died prematurely, through 100 front pages of the supplement she launched