A review of Costanza Rizzacasa D’Orsogna’s book. The loss of Milo and her father forces the author to confront her grief head-on, without taking any shortcuts, until she transforms the void into an opportunity to start afresh. This is where the Japanese art of kintsugi comes in – the art of piecing the shards back together.

From the 1950 speech in defence of state schools to Fiorenzo Alfieri’s experimental project in Turin, the views of Calamandrei and Don Milani on education as the driving force of democracy

Raffaella Silvestri, author of "La persona peggiore" (Mondadori), deals with gender issues, and the soundness of her thinking underpins the emergence of direct reflections on society and contemporary life – reflections that are never rhetorical, but woven into the narrative