Illustrator Thomas Hayman was commissioned to reimagine some of the Italian author’s best-known works to celebrate what would’ve been his 100th birthday Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and ...

And he doesn't — not for the rest of the novel or his life. Calvino makes this so much fun and utterly believable. Even Voltaire makes an appearance. Buy it here. From our morning news briefing ...

"I must say that at the beginning, especially, writers were interested in my work; Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, all those people. They were my first fans," Luigi Serafini says from ...

Holding a well-worn copy of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities—Marco Polo’s recounting to Kublai Khan in brief prose poems ...

Some years ago, accomplished author, Italo Calvino, published a short book titled Invisible Cities. It described, in exquisite detail, dozens of strange, very particular cities. In the end ...

The first of Italo Calvino's enchanting collection of five short stores. Dramatised by Toby Jones from a translation by William Weaver.

Italo Calvino's enchanting collection of five short stories. Omnibus of dramatisations by Toby Jones. From a translation by William Weaver. * MUSHROOMS IN THE CITY - Marcovaldo finds mushrooms ...