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

This weekend, the newspaper features a twelve-page cultural supplement. Here’s what you’ll find on newsstands (and you can also download it here from 10.30 pm on Friday)

France in the grip of unrest. Are the young people setting Paris alight the heirs of the sans-culottes? Why does it all begin across the Alps? And is that where the liberal-democratic order will come to an end? Camus and the casseurs, eternal rebellion and the origins of the ‘French mal’ – by Stefano Cingolani

It’s called adolescence. A magical world where desires, fears and longings blur together. Rebellion as a way of life and the invention of the perfect boy – by Carmelo Zaffora

How cancer is changing. No longer ‘the incurable disease’. The Pope’s understated announcement and a different narrative about the illness, without rhetoric or shame – by Roberto Volpi

An insider’s perspective. From the Reconquista to the Empire, for Spain’s far right, national history is one great battle ‘against the invader’ – by Giorgio Caravale

The Banality of Good. A biography of Cormac McCarthy, who never went out without a gun and wrote in the shadow of the Twin Towers – by Giulio Meotti

Numbers and names. A hundred years since the first telephone directory, a reflection of Italian customs and now a cult object. An exhibition in Turin explores its past and future – by Maurizio Stefanini

That real piece of work. Whether in their careers or family life, on television or in real life, American ambassadors are often a breed apart – by Michele Masneri

Amidst chips and incense. At the gateway to the Far East, where God is still a stranger. A journey to Taiwan, a land where the few Catholics can freely practise their faith. The contradictions of a people who are embracing modernity yet still flock to the temple – by Matteo Matzuzzi

A Sonata for the Mastiff. Calibro 35 have composed the soundtrack for “Ellroy vs L.A.”: Beethoven, well-crafted lies and a fearful America – by Enrico Cicchetti

Everything except newspapers. So much enthusiasm for the new springtime of newsagents. But the temples of the printed press no longer exist – by Pierluigi Battista

Mancuso’s New Cinema. This week’s films, the hottest series and behind-the-scenes stories, as told by Mariarosa Mancuso