On Robinson the “New Year Occasions”. Here is our top ten must-see books of 2023

Robinson asks readers a question: are you sure you’ve read all the best books of the year just ended? We then offer you our top ten best reads of 2023.

E’ Paolo Di Paolo to open the newsstand issue of our cultural weekly, dedicated to New Year’s Eve occasions. One thing is certain, 2023 has demonstrated not only that the novel is not dying but that it is increasingly establishing itself as a parallel path to fast writing on social media. The more social media synthesizes, the more space writers take up. Not just the double will left to us by Cormac McCarthyi magistrali The passenger e Stella Marisbut also the narration river de I libri di Jakub Of Olga Tokarczuk or the new proof of Salman Rushdie, The city of victory.

Naturally, in the foreground are the end-of-year best-seller rankings. King of the bestseller and the principe Harry with his memoir Spare. The Italian exploit is called Francesca Giannone than with the novel The postman, winner of the Bancarella prize, follows the autobiography of the rebel prince.

The Readings page is all for Michele Serra and his year-end almanac. Aficionados will know that every New Year’s Eve Serra writes a calendar of verses in which he imagines what will happen month by month in 2024. Ballads of the current times have become a book, just published by Feltrinelli, enriched by color illustrations by Altan.

An environmentalist wind is blowing among the tiktoker Of Robinson: Sara Scarafia interview Alessandro Gassmannin dialogue with the ecotoker Sofia Pasotto (60 thousand followers). The bet is a life green. While another influential bookmaker, Giulia Modugnotalks about her experience as a reader of Circe Of Madeline Miller (remember that a collector’s edition of the book can be purchased at newsstands with Robinson e Republic).

The reports of the latest editorial news are, as always, the highlight. The cover of the Critics is the crime story of Nita Prose The mystery guest reviewed by Licia Troisi. But there are many writers proposed, including Robert Stone, Patrick Svensson, Serhij Zadan, Mary Oliver. The literary rediscovery of the week is intriguing, this time a writer-dancer who is a pioneer of black dance: Marino Niola tells the story for us Katherine Dunham.

A large whale stands out on the page of books for girls and boys, to illustrate Claudia Fachinetti’s novel dedicated to the cetacean (Caterina Lanfredi writes about it). THE Comic books they are instead dedicated to the recent work of Miguel Villa, Comfortless: graphic novel that imagines a nuclear catastrophe on the outskirts of Cremona. Gabriele Di Donfrancesco spoke with the author.
An explosion of colors in the pages of art thanks to Fiorella Minervino’s story of the exhibition underway at the Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo by Yayoi Kusama, very popular Japanese artist. The photographs of the Hungarian are more sober André Kertész exhibited in Turin (Michele Smargiassi tells them) and the video proposals of Sarah Brahim, a performer born in Riyadh and raised in the United States, on display at the Bally Foundation in Lugano. The exhibition was visited for Robinson by Dario Pappalardo.

For the great cinema series on RobinsonArianna Finos interview Alexander PayneAmerican director of the cult film Sidewayswhich is aiming for the Oscars again with The Holdovers, a bittersweet comedy starring Paul Giamatti. The Talking too much by Antonio Gnoli is with Anything.