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D’amore si muore ma io no | How to survive in real love

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain

Bernardine Evaristo

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

Charles Bukowski

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

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

Gabriel García Márquez

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

David Foster Wallace

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de’ Medici’s ballade

Lorenzo de' Medici

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

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

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Elizabeth Bishop

My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Getting some good American sleep

Otessa Moshfegh

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

My Bohemia | Rimbaud’s longing for freedom

The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver

Inside the Renaissance court | Ariosto’s third Satire

Ludovico Ariosto

The Keeper by Patrizia Cavalli | Pleasure has no doors

Patrizia Cavalli

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Underworld | A dual conception of history

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

American Psycho | The darkest side of society

Bret Easton Ellis

Kavafis’ Oedipus | Life is full of unsolvable riddles

Konstantinos Kavafis

The Burnout Society | Han against freedom

The Ultimate Infidelity | Gozzano’s farewell to sadness

The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Gabriel García Márquez

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

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

Like Water for Chocolate | A Novel of food and magical realism

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

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style

William Faulkner

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

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

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

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck’s theory of knowledge

Olga Tokarczuck

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

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

Journey to the End of the Night | Wandering in an unsettled life

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Sick Fountain | A joke on traditional poetry

Aldo Palazzeschi

“A success unexpected in common hours” | Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

I’ll Steal You Away | Big dreams and sad realities in Ammaniti’s Ischiano Scalo

Niccolò Ammaniti

Memories of My Melancholy Whores | In the space dividing lovers

Gabriel García Márquez

Torquato Tasso’s Amyntas | A tale of the woods

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Thomas Stearns Eliot

The Adventures of Pinocchio, the mischievous marionette

Carlo Lorenzini, Collodi

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

The Adversary | A True Story of Monstrous Deception

Emmanuel Carrère

Not Waving, But Drowning | Smith about (not) seeing the pain

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Wisława Szymborska

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

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

Chelsea Monroe-Cassel

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

David Foster Wallace

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Vittoria Colonna

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

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

Amelia Rosselli

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Foe | The problem with speaking on behalf of another

John M. Coetzee

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

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

The Bad Girl | A modern Madame Bovary

Mario Vargas Llosa

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