A Buddhist, environmentalist and recluse, one of the most beloved female poets returns with a new collection. In a world ablaze, verses to help you rediscover yourself and the silence that allows you to ask: “How am I?”

From finance to natural resources, from big tech to hybrid warfare: Maurizio Molinari’s maps

Plenty of events to celebrate the new, important chapter in the humour series written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney, which has always been a bestseller worldwide. Here are all the events

He has sold twenty million books, has not been seen in public for decades and has never given a book launch or a reading at the theatre

The curator takes stock of the edition that has just concluded. And explains why art remains a key to understanding the reality in which we live

Performances blend tradition and innovation alongside educational initiatives and activities designed to engage younger audiences. Because theatre helps society to grow

The town near Palermo won with a project that combines local identity with national and international outreach, a focus on younger generations and multilingualism

He was 74. His works explored the excesses and anxieties of contemporary society

The South African-born writer’s play *50 Minutes* is being staged for the first time in Italy, at the Teatro della Cometa in Rome. Here, alongside director Tine Milz, she explains why theatre may not be able to change the world, but it can change the way we view ourselves and others in these dark t…

Leonetta Bentivoglio reconstructs, in the form of a novel, the passionate relationship between the Czech composer Leoš Janáček and his muse in the early 20th century

The author has dedicated a novel – which has also been adapted into a TV series – to Mary from *Pride and Prejudice*. Giving her, today, a chance to shine

The marble sculpture was sold by Sotheby’s in New York for over 30 million euros. It depicts an emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

On 22 October 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s first book was published. A group of young British and American expats in Paris travelled to Spain to watch the bullfights. Yet these twenty-somethings, full of dreams, had only just left the abyss of the Great War behind them. A century later, writers and sch…

This episode from the saint’s life opens up a space for engagement with the external threat by fostering a new pact. To defuse violence through responsibility