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We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis sings of the 1960s sexual revolution

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

The Ultimate Infidelity | Gozzano’s farewell to sadness

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style

William Faulkner

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

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

Charles Bukowski

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de’ Medici’s ballade

Lorenzo de' Medici

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

Torquato Tasso’s Amyntas | A tale of the woods

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

David Foster Wallace

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

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

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

The Master and Margarita| Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

American Psycho | The darkest side of society

Bret Easton Ellis

Teller’s Nothing | A brutal quest for the meaning of life

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Vittoria Colonna

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

The Adversary | A True Story of Monstrous Deception

Emmanuel Carrère

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Costretti a Sanguinare | A stream of consciousness in a punk world

To a passer-by | Charles Baudelaire’s lost opportunity

Charles Baudelaire

Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Oxygen in my tents | Amelia Rosselli’s side of the story

Amelia Rosselli

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Gabriel García Márquez

The Adventures of Pinocchio, the mischievous marionette

Carlo Lorenzini, Collodi

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Elizabeth Bishop

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world

You thought I was that type | Akhmatova’s love anathema

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes

Chelsea Monroe-Cassel

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Wisława Szymborska

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

David Foster Wallace

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck’s theory of knowledge

Olga Tokarczuck

The Sick Fountain | A joke on traditional poetry

Aldo Palazzeschi

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy

Gabriel García Márquez

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Wystan Hugh Auden

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

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