This article is published in issue 7 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until February 16, 2021
When the pandemic started, about a year ago, everyone started making predictions. We’ll be out in May, it was said. Then it was the turn of the summer, autumn, early 2021. And today, while Italian political life is in full revolution and vaccines are trying to find their way through bureaucracies, delays and variants of the virus, we are talking about another a turn in May, in September, some from 2022, others from 2023.
What will be, however, is not important. Or rather, it is secondary: what matters, however, is what happens here and now, how to understand it, how to deal with it.
For this reason, we have decided to include five new columnists among the regular appointments of the newspaper. We have chosen them as points of view capable of giving us a compass to orient ourselves in the vastness of the present that surrounds us.
From this week, in addition to the usual Daria Bignardi and Roberto D’Agostino, you will find these signatures, which I present to you in alphabetical order. Start from Francesco Bonami, curator, consultant and critic of contemporary art, one of the most brilliant desecrators in his field: he will use the pages as if they were a gallery, a showcase on experiments, avant-gardes and artistic provocations able to make us look beyond and through. Together with him he will be there Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffè, economist, popularizer and professor at the Bocconi University in Milan as well as a consultant to the Italian government: his task is to clearly explain the thorniest issues in the economy. Then we come to a woman, Daniela Collu, writer, television and radio host, known on Instagram as Weather in Stazzitta: for Vanity it will take care of the classic mail of the heart, unhinging its laws, dynamics and answers, and updating it to the times of WhatsApp and social networks. Finally, two other writers. The first is Paolo Di Paolo, multiple award-winning author of novels, essays and children’s books: with his stories he will take us very far or very close, to the discovery of important stories and events yet forgotten by all the media. The second is Michele Masneri, company of The paper and in turn the author of books: with an unmistakable style, he will analyze the most emblematic events and characters of the week.
We would like this chorus of voices, this polyphony of perspectives to give you back only one thing: simplicity intended as a simplification of complexity. We are living in a critical, articulated, sometimes difficult moment. The only way to deal with it, in our opinion, is to understand it clearly. Step by step.
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