Guess who’s coming to the Arena. On the new Robinson

What awaits you on newsstands with Republic from Sunday 5 May it is a special issue of Robinsondedicated to the new book by Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones, which we offer you in a collector’s edition, and at the events scheduled from 9 to 13 May at Turin Book Fair all’Arena Robinson Republicbetween literature, current affairs, music.

We tell you about some of the great guests who will be at our stand, from the Nobel Prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah e Orhan Pamukto the great noirists James Ellroy, Don Winslow, Joel Dicker, it’s at David Nicholls, master of the love story, in a series of author portraits. And not only that: to Claudia Mregola Jeff Kinney, cult author of Schiappa, who returns to our country and to the Robinson Arena, explains why Italy has a special place in his heart, while Zero limestone he anticipates with Luca Valtorta in a long interview the themes of the new graphic novel that he will present to our readers in Turin (and draws a special Robinsondillo for us: to find out what it’s like, browse Robinson!).

But let’s get back to Colleen Hoover. It is the symbol of Booktok. The biggest publishing phenomenon of recent years. It has sold 30 million copies world-wide and after The Song of Achilles e Circe by Madeline Miller, and after the poetic anthology Loving you like I love youRobinson’s new book, chosen together with our editorial committee of bookmakers, is a Hoover title never translated in Italy, Heart Bones (translation Roberta Zuppet, 352 pages, €14.90, on newsstands with Repubblica and Robinson).

The volume, created with Sperling & Kupfer, Hoover’s publishing house, is truly a collector’s edition. First of all, for the format: paperback, like the other books by Robinson, and with soft cover, perfect for your bag and backpack. Then for the back cover, with a special dedication to readers of Robinson written by Hoover, and finally for the preface and afterword, signed by two writers: Stefania S, author of the series Love me love me (Sperling) e Rita Nardiwriter, bookmaker and face of @robinsontok.

What is he talking about Heart Bones? Hoover herself reveals it to us on the cover of our supplement, while in the following pages the bookmakers tell us why this writer of disturbing and complex love stories has conquered Gen Z.

We look forward to seeing you then Turin Book Fair from 9 to 13 May. The stand ofArena Robinson Republic, which doubles its space this year, is in Pavilion 3 (R102, S101). Here you can read the meeting program day by day, with a triple schedule.

On the main stage, like every year, the great names of literature, current affairs and the signatures of will alternate Republic and in the backstage there will be two new spaces: the TikTok area, where our bookmakers will talk about the Arena on social media and above all, the Book Lounge: a space for interviews with the great authors who will be in Turin.

Finally, another new feature: our bookshop, where you will find titles from the library on sale Republic, including non-fiction, fiction and illustrated. And for those who cannot be in Turin, we are launching the e-commerce site these days Repubblica Bookshop to buy them online. Just type, from May 9th: repubblicabookshop.it.

As always then on Robinson you will find the pages dedicated to art where Dario Pappalardo tells us about it Night effect, the exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori set up in Palazzo Barberini, in Rome: 150 works synthetically attributable to the “new American realism”, coming from the collection of A?shti Foundationborn 25 years ago on the initiative of the Lebanese entrepreneur Tony Salamé and his wife Elham, who interact with the seventeenth-century spaces, with the great theater of wonder set up by the family of Pope Urban VIII in the seventeenth century.

Arianna Finos interviewed for the shows Wes Ballwhich will be released on May 8th with The kingdom of monkeystells us his version of a science fiction saga that began 55 years ago with the Planet of the Apes who has been able to reinvent herself like few others in the history of cinema.

And, again, at the festivals the Chinese artist and writer Ai Weiwei he says “Thought cannot be censored”, in a long message to the organizers of the Terzani Prize in Udine who awarded him a special mention for his latest memoir and for his lifelong commitment against all forms of repression. Annarita Briganti anticipates the content of the message in the space dedicated to the Vicino/Lontano literary festival which hosts the awarding of the prizes named after Tiziano Terzani, the twentieth anniversary of whose death.

Finally, this week’s Straparlando is with Marco Santambrogio who after retirement fulfilled his dream of enrolling at the Brera Academy and dedicating himself to painting. In the meantime he has published a book, Philosophy and history, in which he rails against historicism, and continues his studies on the mathematician Gottlob Frege. Enjoy the reading!