On the shores of Lake Geneva, in the summer that wasn’t a summer, amidst ghost stories told by candlelight

The capital is a place full of surprises, of hidden spots that remain hidden so as not to be erased. Cult screenplays, wanderings and chases

From the German renaissance to the ‘Detroit syndrome’. The end of the Wolfsburg fairy tale, a city that lives and breathes through its factory

From data centres to Silicon Valley’s predatory entrepreneurs, the bipartisan crusade against the ‘bogeyman’ of this election

Seventy years ago, an unhappy genius died, convinced that his revolution was over. A farewell as turbulent as his life

The Odyssey plays its part, but the real attraction is the air conditioning, a Hollywood innovation dating back to the 1920s. From American cinemas ‘cooled by refrigeration’ to our (much-maligned) multiplexes

A religious poet who recognised contemporary artists as essential interlocutors for the Church today. It is no coincidence that, for him, the word is humanity’s greatest invention

Andy Burnham will not be taking his dog to Downing Street so as not to upset the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. A brief political history of the only animal ‘that has managed to tame man’

By taking to the field, the generalissimo has broken a taboo dating back to the unification of Italy. But there is an entire military leadership far better prepared than the political one. From Miceli to De Lorenzo, all of Italy’s contradictions are reflected in the generals who wore ‘fake beards’, as Cossiga would have put it. Portraits and dilemmas