Il 25 April 50 years ago Portugal he got rid of the dictatorship with a peaceful, democratic, poetic and above all young coup d’état. We went to visit those who were there and who still are poets, militants and young people. The cover of is dedicated to them Robinson on newsstands on Sunday 21 April which we entitled “To the revolution on the Two Horses”, from the title of the cult book by Marco Ferrari (which became a film and is now in bookshops for Laterza with the sequel 50 years later).
He met them at Lisbon Raffaella De Santis and through their testimony and their memories we (re)discover why we still say thank you to the country of carnations today.
For this week’s reading he writes for us Don Winslow. The author, who will be at the Turin Book Fair on May 10th and then also in other Italian cities to present his latest novel City in ruins (HarperCollins) with which he concludes the trilogy dedicated to the New England mafia, tells us how to create a story by making ends meet with another profession.
The pages of TikTok they are instead dedicated to two important anniversaries: World Earth Day which is celebrated on April 22nd and Book Day on April 23, two events for which social media is also mobilizing. For the occasion, Sara Scarafia asked the founder of Geopop, a reality with over 10 million followers, the thirty-eight-year-old Neapolitan geologist Andrea Moccia, to dispel fake news on the topic. While we asked six booktokers and ecotokers to suggest a title to create a green library. From Saffron Foer a George Durrell, go and read their advice for saving the planet. To whom Robinson he adds The great blindness Of Amitav Ghosh e Robinson Crusoe Of Daniel Defoewhich inspired our cultural insert.
Writer Amitav Ghosh: “No one listens to climate warnings anymore”
by Sara Scarafia
As always, there are many reviews of the latest releases in bookstores. Starting from James Brown put in curlers (Adelphi), the new play by the French playwright and writer Yasmina Reza, between laughter and madness, as Mariarosa Mancuso tells us. While Alberto Manguel read for us Fantastic stories of real islands (Einaudi) by Ernesto Franco: from Atlantis to the Galapagos, a journey between history and fiction to leave without necessarily moving.
And, again, Antonio Monda reviews the long-awaited memoir by Salman Rushdie, Knife, published in Italy by Mondadori, where the writer reconstructs the attack he suffered in August 2022 and tells us about his second life. Finally, with Giancarlo De Cataldo we discover the new novel by J.K. Rowling, Lurking tomb (Salani), who under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith he returns to the thriller for the seventh time, to write about irrationality and the anxiety of success. The author to be rediscovered by popular demand from readers this week is Maurizio Salabelleabout which Marco Belpoliti tells us everything.
In the pages for children, Ilaria Zaffino met the Spanish girl Maria Ramosa young author and illustrator who arrived in our country to present her latest book to Italian readers, Three small lights (Mondadori), which has just been selected among the finalists of Strega Girls and Boys Award 2024, in the 6+ category. A magical story, made up of kind gestures and friends you can count on that teaches children the recipe for happiness. Or at least he tries.
Also for the little ones, a new interview with our super special correspondent is back Geronimo Stilton to the rising stars of sport: the protagonist this time is the very young skateboard champion Asia Lanzi who is preparing for the Paris Games.
In art we go to Venezia where the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates the multifaceted genius of until September 16th Jean Cocteau which scandalized Paris: Andrea Contin saw it for us. While al Fitzwilliam Museum di Cambridge the many parallel universes of the British artist of the late eighteenth century are on display William Blake, as Antonello Guerrera tells us. And, again, they return to Milano, a Royal Palace, the works of Brassaiimmense singer of Paris who with his shots contributed to building the imagination of the Ville Lumière in the world.
For the shows, Chiara Ugolini interviewed Shonda Rhimes, the queen of TV series: among the most influential women in entertainment, 54 years old, screenwriter, producer, entrepreneur with Shondaland. About her The first series about her, Grey’s Anatomyis in its twenty-first edition, the latest creature, the saga of Bridgerton, in its third season after record numbers. Finally the Straparlando of the week is with Salvatore Settis.
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– 2024-04-21 23:39:44
