One of the major films from the brief but intense “pop art” phase of Italian cinema, “Col cuore in gola”, has been restored by Netflix and the National Film Archive for the Venice Film Festival. Thus, the avant-garde Tinto is rediscovered

Einaudi has published the undergraduate thesis in which student David Foster Wallace refuted the conclusions of philosopher and beekeeper Richard Clyde Taylor. A passionate defence of human freedom that takes us to the heart of a career and a worldview 

How much does one’s surname matter when it comes to gaining power in Latin America? And some dynasties are linked to the wave of pro-Trump governments

25 years on from 9/11: explaining the horror to Gen Z. Starting from the 1980s to piece together the puzzle, with all the pieces already on the table

Scianna and Emma Dante with Buttafuoco in Venice: photography and theatre in a city whose history has never grown old

Forty years on from Chernobyl, AI is the new nuclear power and data centres are its power stations. Everyone needs it, everyone fears it. Hatred of AI has brought Jane Fonda and Steve Bannon together

Dopamine fuelled Michelangelo and Napoleon; now it keeps us glued to our screens and produces the devastating effect of cognitive flattening, with the predictable consequence of increased suggestibility and a decline in fundamental critical and judgemental abilities.

Once, when it was Marxist, it saw itself as the guardian and custodian of the laws of history. Now, after history had taken a different turn, it began to see itself as the guardian and custodian of ethics and even aesthetics. From Luigi Pintor’s ‘plebs’ to Stefano Bonaccini. 1994: the horror of those who go to nightclubs and football grounds, and the revolt of the elites

The Bridge over the Strait put to the test of myth. Optical illusions, violence and beauty, D’Arrigo and Consolo, and Giulio Ferroni’s “Panegirico”