God Save The Punk. Half a century after the cultural explosion that in 1976 swept away every previous musical canon, in Robinson – on newsstands from Sunday 15 November with La Repubblica – we retrace the history of a genre that will take centre stage from 16 to 22 November at the tenth edition of Milan Music Week, directed for the first time by Linus. In this issue: Antonello Guerrera’s report from the concert-reading by the iconic Johnny Rotten, the driving force behind the Sex Pistols; the stories of punk’s leading figures, from Joe Strummer of The Clash to Don Letts, recounted by Luca Valtorta; and expert recommendations for must-have records from E. Gomma Guarneri and Marco Philopat. Also included is the programme for Milano Music Week, which compares the two great revolutions that emerged in parallel fifty years ago: on the one hand, disco music, with a programme curated by DJ and producer Lele Sacchi covering clubbing, maxi-singles and DJ culture; on the other, punk, with a section curated and moderated at the Fabbrica del Vapore by Luca Valtorta. Admission is free to all events.
As always, the rest of this issue features reviews of new releases in bookshops, our regular columns and international pages.
In the section dedicated to reading groups, this week it’s the turn of our book club, Robinson’s Island. The new book of the month is Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel, *The Sun Also Rises*, published a century ago in October 1926 and destined to become a classic. Sara Scarafia traces the origins of this masterpiece. Also on our pages are reviews of our latest read, *Canne al vento* by Grazia Deledda. A way to remember the Sardinian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize a century ago. Sign up to our book club: the QR code is on Robinson.
In the section for young readers, Ilaria Zaffino tells us about an illustrated masterpiece by the 20th-century author Virginia Lee Burton, centred on a house surrounded by nature.
In the comics section, Valerio Bindi has interviewed Boum, a Canadian artist whose graphic novel *La medusa* has won numerous awards, including the 2025 Eisner Award, the 2025 Graphic Medicine Award and the 2024 Prix des libraires du Québec. The programmes feature an unmissable double interview with Antonio Franchini, author of the novel Il fuoco che ti porti dentro, and director Edoardo De Angelis, who adapted it into a film due for release in cinemas and presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival. They tell Arianna Finos about the process of writing and then bringing to the screen an exuberant, aggressive, conservative and over-the-top Neapolitan mother, played on set by Vanessa Scalera.
In the arts section, we highlight the splendid exhibition dedicated to Pontormo at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. It is the largest monographic exhibition in half a century. Pablo Maurette visited it for us. This week, the Festival pages tackle the themes of women’s issues, rights and emancipation. We do so as L’eredità delle donne (Women’s Legacy) approaches – the festival taking place in Florence and Bologna, curated by Serena Dandini, featuring an essay by Zahra Joya, an Afghan journalist now living in exile in London. Antonio Gnoli’s ‘Straparlando’ features Anna Oliverio Ferraris