In a penetrating stare through her new novel, a blistering page-turner entitled Dream Count, Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie goes for literary greatness. There is her usual lyricism, ...

Books that feature objects as narrators or central storytelling devices offer a unique literary experience. These narratives ...

An Italo Calvino quote, and one of the house’s core tenets, guided Massimo Giorgetti’s FW25 MSGM collection: “Lightness is not superficiality.” Looking to elevate through weightlessness – of ...

Columnist Dani Garavelli on a city rebirth and why Glaswegians need to get off the sidelines and prove People Make Glasgow.

I’ve been reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and thinking about how the places we inhabit are built as much from memory and desire as bricks and mortar. If all the urban dreamscapes ...

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 ...

Il traduttore è il più importante alleato. È lui che mi introducee al mondo!” - Italo Calvino [Without translation I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most ...

The exhibit is an essay on the ‘Six Memos Italo Calvino’ left us for this Millennium. It is a cathartic stream of reflection on the vastness of my own emotions, the extremes of my dreams and fears, ...

One lad chases a hare into the forest and stumbles upon a mysterious palace with a silent,occasionally naked, yet heavily veiled chatelaine; a cattleman turns out to have a secret past; a third ...

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