A paradise for everyoneTo Each Their AlbaniaItalian TV host Myrta Merlino is moving to San Marino TV. But every celebrity needs a Plan B: Channel 7, Channel 8, Channel 9 — or another country altogether. From Agon Channel’s Albanian adventure to Pupo in Central Asia and Roberto Mancini in Saudi Arabia, everyone has their Albania.byMichele Masneri8 AUG 26
MagazineMichel Houellebecq, the secular popeHe is the last preacher. From jester of nihilism to toothless parish priest of the West, which has digested even itselfbyGiulio Meotti3 AUG 26
the weekend supplements“If we were ever to meet on Judgement Day”: Wittgenstein beyond geniusBefore he became the philosopher of the "Tractatus", his friends thought of him as an angel. But he had quite a temper, as poor Engelmann discoveredbyAlessandra Iadicicco3 AUG 26
MagazineIn the heart of wild SardiniaWalking the 500-kilometre-long Way of Saint Barbara, past caves, sheer drops and Italy’s oldest geological formationsbyGery Palazzotto3 AUG 26
MagazineLost sisters. Feminism is in crisis, torn apart by a generational and political conflictIn late spring this year, the situation came to a head. Words such as ‘censorship’, ‘violence’ and ‘oppression’ began to surface. There were interruptions, mockery and insults. The issues causing division have remained the same for years, ever since the cultural invasion of gender and ‘woke’ ideology: the struggle for dialogue and the loss of love. An investigationbyDonatella Borghesi1 AUG 26
MagazineCommander Yonatan, the other NetanyahuThe Israeli Prime Minister’s elder brother, aged just thirty, was the only casualty of the Entebbe mission. Victory as survival, in the never-ending warbyMichele Silenzi1 AUG 26
MODERNITY AND FAITHA world in which God is irrelevantIn the dramatic solitude of the secularised West, we have deluded ourselves into thinking we can do without it. But the finiteness of life always raises the question of meaning, from which it is impossible to escape. A conversation with Cardinal Robert SarahbyMatteo Matzuzzi1 AUG 26
the weekend supplementsSome Like It Cold. The Life, Death and Miracles of IceCold as a luxury, a craft, an archive and a desire. A material that is anything but ‘dead’, with a history of commercial triumphs, domestic revolutions and contemporary obsessions. The journeys of an impossible commoditybyEnrico Cicchetti1 AUG 26
MagazineLolita never diedFree from Nabokov’s pen and Humbert’s mind, it has a voice all of its own. Pia Pera was the first to realise thisbyAnnamaria Guadagni1 AUG 26
MagazineMind the tree. We call on them to save us from the heat, but we don’t know themWe imagine them as loyal soldiers under our command, in the trenches, ready to solve all the problems – the ones we’ve created, whether we like it or not. But, like nature itself, they are completely indifferent to human destinies. Figures, contradictions and ideas for planting more effectively (and putting an end to the rhetoric)byAntonio Pascale1 AUG 26
