Saturday and Sunday in "Il Foglio". What’s in the weekend supplements

This weekend’s newspaper features an eleven-page cultural supplement. Here’s what you’ll find at newsagents 

31 JUL 26
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Claude Monet, "Coastal Path Through Wheat Fields near Pourville", 1882

This weekend’s newspaper features an eleven-page cultural supplement. Here’s what you’ll find at newsagents (and you can also download it here from 10.30 pm on Friday
In the jungle of Kherson. In the city of survivors, alongside the soldiers of the 34th Brigade who know all too well that the fight against a drone is a matter of flesh and blood: there is a man behind the camera who chooses to kill you and watches you die, just as happened to Misha – by Micol Flammini

The lay Pope. He is the last preacher. Houellebecq, from jester of nihilism to toothless parish priest of the West that has digested even itself – by Giulio Meotti
The Irrelevance of God. In the dramatic solitude of the secularised West, we have deluded ourselves into thinking we can do without Him. But the finitude of life always raises the question of meaning, from which it is impossible to escape. A conversation with Cardinal Robert Sarah – by Matteo Matzuzzi

Mind the tree. We call on them to save us from the heat, but we don’t really know them. Figures, contradictions and ideas for planting better (and putting an end to the rhetoric) – by Antonio Pascale
Some Like
It Cold. Commercial conquests, domestic revolutions and modern-day obsessions. The life, death and miracles of ice – by Enrico Cicchetti
Strayed
sisters. Feminism is in crisis, torn apart by a generational and political conflict. Strained dialogue and forgotten love. An investigation – by Donatella Borghesi

Lolita never died. Freed from Nabokov’s pen and Humbert’s mind, she has a voice all of her own. Pia Pera was the first to realise this – by Annamaria Guadagni.
The underground libraries. Lost and rediscovered books tell the story of a spectacular Naples. From La Capria to Ortese, from Nicola Pugliese to Michele Prisco. Treasures on paper that capture the essence of a city that is both the most generous in revealing itself and the most astute in concealing itself. An itinerary – by Francesco Palmieri
Baby
Wittgenstein. Before he became the philosopher of the "Tractatus", his friends saw him as an angel. But he had quite a temper, as poor Engelmann discovered – by Alessandra Iadicicco

Into the wilds of Sardinia. Walking the 500-kilometre Cammino di Santa Barbara trail through caves, sheer drops and Italy’s oldest geological formations – by Gery Palazzotto