Remember the City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella or Utopia by Tommaso More: also Evanland it is a wonderful place, as, in the best of all worlds, all population centers should be. This imagined by Gio Evan gathers artists, writers, philosophers, spiritual teachers, travelers, poets, all together, for one day (1 July 2022), from […]
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Hernan Diaz, the ultimate taboo
This article is published in issue 26/27 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until July 5, 2022 “It’s a mystery how money is still a taboo, and that’s also one of the reasons I wanted to write this book. Money, wealth have a great place in the American imagination, much more than in that of any […]
Elizabeth Day: “The discomfort of those who cannot be a mother”
There are topics that could not be explained so well if you had not touched them firsthand. Perhaps you would not be able to get into those maze of confused thoughts if they weren’t your own first. Even if you are a good writer, even if you have a fervent creativity and know how to […]
Maria Beatrice Alonzi: “At the service of others to help them get better”
According to Maria Beatrice Alonzi books should not be the self-analysis of whoever writes them, but something that has useful feedback for those who buy and browse them. «I would never want to give the weight of my problems to others: the story must not be an arm of the author, but serve the reader. […]
Farewell to Abraham Yehoshua, the narrator of the Jewish world
Writing for him has always been “a way of creating new situations in which to integrate the public and the private, that is, to connect political events to human relations”. The political events mentioned in this interview with Vanity Fair are those of Israel always at the center of the reflection of Abraham Yehoshua, writer […]
Maylis De Kerangal: “Well yes, I hear the voices”
This article is published in issue 24/25 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until June 21, 2022. When it trembles. When she melts into singing. When it breaks with emotion. When it is distorted in the scream, or in the pleasure. The human voice does not stand still. She moves, she vibrates with us. Matter for […]
Bioarchitecture, how to live your home in a healthier way
All products are selected in full editorial autonomy. If you buy one of these products, we may receive a commission. Have you ever thought of your home as a medicine to achieve the maximum state of well-being? In short, a house that is finally the perfect den of the body and soul? To explain how […]
Premio Strega 2022: here are the 7 finalists (who make history)
After the sixth of 2020, which arrived in the year in which the pandemic had forced the organization of the Prize to restrict the tour and contiguous the entrances to the final of Villa Giulia, the Witch Prize of 2022 goes even further, bringing the beauty of seven novels to the final. It is the […]
Raffaella Carrà, “who changed many lives without wanting to”
The first thing that Paolo Armelli did when the newspapers spread the news of Raffaella Carrà’s death was to review, almost instinctively, the videos on YouTube that saw her as a protagonist, trying in some way to fill that sense of estrangement that pervaded everyone, as if we felt like the orphans of an aunt […]
10 royal books to read for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee
All products are selected in full editorial autonomy. If you purchase one of these products, we may receive a commission. Crowned heads, ancient titles, boundless powers: royal families have always exercised an unparalleled fascination and influence. Whether you were a subject or simply curious, as in our case, it makes little difference. And, on the […]