Italo Calvino
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Everything Can Be Dismantled review: a rehearsal for change amid the housing crisis
- Stage
- September 13, 2018, 10:35
Everything Can Be Dismantled The Lir ★★★ One risk of political theatre, even that as dreamy as the new Discotheque Collective, is that it may be overt(...)

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel Q&A: ‘I wrote one of my first novels sitting up a tree’
- Books
- May 25, 2015, 08:00
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is a novelist from Equatorial Guinea, who writes mostly about social, political and economic ineqality in his country and in A(...)

George O’Brien: ‘Writing has taught me to be disciplined, to be patient, to persist’
- Books
- February 19, 2015, 11:43
George O’Brien is Professor Emeritus of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is author of three memoirs, The Village of Longing, Dan(...)

Miriam Frank: ‘Reading sharpened my understanding of human behaviour’
- Books
- January 26, 2015, 15:00
Miriam Frank is the author of My Innocent Absence: Tales from a Nomadic Life (Arcadia Books), an exploration of identity, belonging and relationships,(...)

Sacro Gra review: a gentle drive around the city of Rome
- Film
- November 6, 2014, 20:12
The Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) is Italy’s most expensive public highway; a 50-km ring road that encircles the city of Rome. If you listen closel(...)

Léan Cullinan on learning to love rewriting
- Books
- August 7, 2014, 12:00
Léan Cullinan has been writing since childhood and is a graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Her debut novel is The(...)

Brought to Book: Sinan Antoon on his literary life
- Books
- April 21, 2014, 01:00
Sinan Antoon is author of The Corpse Washer (Yale University Press), translated from Arabic by the author and recently longlisted for the Independe(...)
Italo Calvino, Letters 1941-1985, selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood, translated by Martin McLaughlin.
- Books
- July 20, 2013, 01:00
The letters of Italo Calvino? Surely not, we might think, given this writer’s famous guardedness and privacy, his distrust of the biographical, of the(...)