By Alessia Sciannamblo

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot

Charles Bukowski

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

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