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Intertwined hands of family members

TV Shows

Go Ahead | Family is not about blood relations

Ying Hong

Tiger Lily - Sexton

Poems

Anne Sexton and the hunger for creativity | The Red Shoes

Roberta Truscia

Art

The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli hides a story of jealousy

Valentina Manganaro

Leopardi - Wildflower

Poems

Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia by Giacomo Leopardi | Pain is universal

Agnese Mosconi

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Movies

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Roberta La Macchia

Andrew being screamed at by Fletcher while playing in Whiplash

Movies

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Nadia Corvino

The Chicks

Music

Chicks’Home | The controversy that almost ended the career

Isabella Cagna

Momo | The importance of taking time

Movies

Momo | The importance of taking time

Cristina Danini

Michael Smith's Untitled shows an alligator claw holding a clothes hanger, providing a lead for further contemplation through subtle, everyday objects.

Contemporary Art

Untitled provides for contemplation through everyday objects

Christine Bax

Tii Plant - Dickinson

Poems

Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Dickinson’s unusual carriage

Agnese Mosconi

Solos | Humans wanted - Helen Mirren

TV Shows

Solos | Humans wanted

Lucia Marinelli

The Kominsky Method | Laughter and melancholy

TV Shows

The Kominsky Method | Laughter and melancholy

Federica Gandolfo

Exhibition of Dali at the Atelier des Lumières

Contemporary Art

The Atelier des Lumières | When Dalí’s imagination moves to Pink Floyd’s rhythm

Maëva Le Roux

Emmanuelle Riva in Amour by Michael Haneke

Movies

Amour | An experience

Giorgio Reclama

Maple Leaves - The road not taken

Poems

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

Agnese Mosconi

Poem of the Mountain | Marina Tsvetaeva on the end of love

Poems

Poem of the Mountain | Marina Tsvetaeva on the end of love

Sofia Fiorini

Locke

Movies

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Andrea Donini

Francis Alÿs Color Matching. The artist as a witness

Contemporary Art

Color Matching | The artist as a witness

Veronica Schirru

Madonna del Solletico | The magic of the first laughter - A detail

Art

Madonna del Solletico | The magic of the first laughter

Valentina Manganaro

Memories of My Melancholy WHores ! In th Distance Between Lovers

Books

Memories of My Melancholy Whores | In the space dividing lovers

Flavia Di Mauro

Peony - Sepheri

Poems

Address by Sohrab Sepehri | A quest to mirror life between poetry and cinema

Roberta Truscia

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments | The words of love

Books

A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments | The words of love

Margherita Pescarin

Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin takes the atmosphere of Swinging London to talk about the sexual revolution that occurred at that time.

Poems

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

Agnese Mosconi

Datura Cornucopia

Poems

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Agnese Mosconi

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

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

A Dublin's Corner by night.

Books

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

Alessia Sciannamblo

Brooklyn Bridge - NYC

Books

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Erica Bassani

El Maracanazo | The most tragic after match ever - The game-winning goal

Sports

1950 El Maracanazo | The most tragic after match ever

Marco Massera

Joseph the Carpenter - Painting of an old man (Saint Joseph) and child holding a candle

Art

Joseph the Carpenter shows de la Tour’s mise-en-scene

Valentina Manganaro

Maid, Maddy sitting on Alex's shoulders while they walk into the wood

TV Shows

Maid | A game-changing tail on motherhood and abuse

Sara Erriu

Little Women | A modern classic | fist page of the book

Books

Little Women | An independence story against society’s expectations

Mariarosa Palamara

A melted ice-cream in a street.

Books

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Alessia Sciannamblo

Ed Sheeran's Divide is the peak of his songwriting

Music

Ed Sheeran’s Divide is the peak of his songwriting

Isabella Cagna

Pheasant-Eye flower - Pozzi

Poems

Song of My Nakedness by Antonia Pozzi | Tales from people’s body

Sofia Fiorini

Video Games

Gris | A new way of overcoming grief

Antonella Massaro

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

Chernobyl - A woman and two men are discussing inside a room on a plan to follow and save millions of lives

TV Shows

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Valeria Usala

Photo of Betty and Zorg in front of a pink and blue wall, from the film Betty Blue

Movies

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Skye Kuppig

Song to a Seagull | The making of Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark tour

Music

Song to a Seagull | The Making of Joni Mitchell

Flavia Di Mauro

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world - Victory!

Movies

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Cristina Danini

The Fosbury Flop | Revolution is one jump away

Sports

The Fosbury Flop | Revolution is one jump away

Marco Massera

Blue columbine- Ellen Bass

Poems

Ode to Invisibility | Ellen Bass and the torment of beauty

Sofia Fiorini

WandaVision

TV Shows

WandaVision | The ultimate coping mechanism

Giulia Orati

Painting of the raising of Lazarus by Caravaggio

Art

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Valentina Manganaro

Passiflore Ailee - Cavalli

Poems

The Keeper by Patrizia Cavalli | Pleasure has no doors

Sofia Fiorini

A police car with sirens wailing in Brooklyn, NYC

TV Shows

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The good cops do exist

Federica Gandolfo

Rhododendron Javanicum

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

Ambient 1: Music for Airports. In close relation with space - An Interior view of Yeşilköy airport

Music

Ambient 1: Music for Airports | A sonic field to explore

Flavia Di Mauro

Persepolis graphic novel war

Comics

Persepolis | An intimate narration of war

Cristina Danini

Fearless - A woman holding a key with the word fearless engraved

Music

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) | A mature outlook on a coming-of-age record

Maria Chiara Pacifici

Esty is getting shaved by a woman after her marriage

TV Shows

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Valeria Usala

Film still from 1944 Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman

Movies

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Skye Kuppig

Jane Eyre: an inner journey towards emancipation | ancient house in the countryside

Books

Jane Eyre | An inner journey towards emancipation

Maria Luisa Da Rold

Center of a star cluster - topic covered in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Books

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Nadia Corvino

Love & Ashes - a photo of Messanges, France

Music

Love & Ashes | Blood and Sun’s American neofolk

Jacopo Soru

A row of desks in a classroom.

Books

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Alessia Sciannamblo

A portrait of colorful parrot on a black backgroung.

Books

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

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Moore Miracleman

Comics

Miracleman By Alan Moore | A society ruled by superheroes

Giovanni Di Rienzo

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible | Ancient map of the world

Books

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible

Giulia Viganò

Ernest Hemingway writing at his campsite in Kenya in 1953

Books

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Alessia Sciannamblo

Windswept Adan - In this image we see a rocky shoreline and a piece of land in the distance with some mountains

Music

Windswept Adan | Healing music for pandemic times

Jacopo Soru

A couple in their house before moving

TV Shows

Scenes from a Marriage | Gender roles, love and an empty house

Giorgia Di Molfetta

Akhmatova's Love anthem

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

Tulips - Walcott

Poems

Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life

Agnese Mosconi

Fatoumata Diawara knows how to heal your pains

Music

Fatoumata Diawara knows how to heal your pains

Flavia Di Mauro

Ted Lasso

TV Shows

Ted Lasso | Being good is the new being bad

Federica Gandolfo

Harvest | The simplicity of a country-rock gem - Acoustic Guitar

Music

Harvest | The simplicity of a country-rock gem

Vanessa Cammarota

Torquato Tasso's Amyntas | A tale of the woods - Daphne cneorum

Poems

Torquato Tasso’s Amyntas | A tale of the woods

Maria Cristina Parenti

Boyhood

Movies

Boyhood | When cinema captures real life

Andrea Donini

Desperate Housewives - San Francisco's terraced houses

TV Shows

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

Jordi Ferrer Torres

Could Have - Primula acaulis

Poems

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Agnese Mosconi

Wanting to Die - Illustration of a plant with yellow flowers - Vintage Illustration of Banana

Poems

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

Agnese Mosconi

Selina Meyers in VEEP

TV Shows

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Federica Gandolfo

Photo of Angela Davis in an abandoned railway station

Movies

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Skye Kuppig

Naturally is J.J. Cale's first album, released in 1971. In Naturally, he openly embraces a feeling of quietness, clear southern skies, and dusty roads.

Music

J.J. Cale’s Naturally is a classic of the blues-rock genre

Jacopo Soru

Raffaello's painting Madonna di Foligno is a colorful example of an ex-voto, a form of religious offering to a divinity after a request has been granted.

Art

Madonna di Foligno gathers all Raffaello Sanzio’s fundamentals

Valentina Manganaro

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions - geometric pattern

Books

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Giulia Viganò

Stoner | The story of an ordinary life

Books

Stoner | The story of an ordinary life

Roberta La Macchia

Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world - Arnold Böcklin - Die Toteninsel III

Art

Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world

Valentina Manganaro

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Movies

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Giorgio Reclama

Inkheart | The importance of reading aloud - old books

Books

Inkheart | The importance of reading aloud

Cristina Danini

two men are smoking and drinking at a bar in dim light

TV Shows

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

Valeria Usala

People on the sidewalk

TV Shows

Freaks and Geeks | A genuine portrait of adolescence

Federica Gandolfo

Garden of the Arcane Delights - The image shows a cemetery in the woods, thus some tree are visible together along with many tombs. At the center of the image, between two trees there is a headless statue

Music

Garden of the Arcane Delights | A tribe of darkness

Jacopo Soru

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at the Central Perk

TV Shows

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at Central Perk

Letizia Bastonero

Sense8

TV Shows

Sense8 | A celebration of human connectedness

Andrea Donini

Stefaneschi Triptych - The Retro Side

Art

The Stefaneschi Triptych gathers two different stories

Valentina Manganaro

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud - Internal dome view

Art

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light

Valentina Manganaro

Stardew Valley | Gameplay image

Video Games

Learn the value of the little things in Stardew Valley

Antonella Massaro

Sour is a soundtrack of teenage heartbreak

Music

Sour is a soundtrack of teenage heartbreak

Maria Chiara Pacifici

It's a Sin | The AIDS invasion in 1980s' London

TV Shows

It’s a Sin | The AIDS invasion in 1980s’ London

Margherita Pescarin

The Hours - Bouquet de fleurs au muguet

Books

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Erica Bassani

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Still from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom featuring Viola Davis as Ma Rainey

Movies

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

Skye Kuppig

Cyr - The eleventh studio album of The Smashing Pumpkins

Music

Cyr | Smashing Pumpkins’ homage to synth-pop

Edoardo Chen

Sports

Montréal 1976 | Comăneci and the price of the perfect ten

Matilde Castagnone

Classic Bowler Hat on Chessboard

Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Erica Bassani

artwork

Contemporary Art

Skyspace-1 | An experience of sensory awareness

Anna Ainio

Norwegian Wood | The charm in simplicity

Books

Norwegian Wood | The charm in simplicity

Antonella Massaro

Charley, Nova and Ralph Angel Bordelon, the protagonist of Queen Sugar.

TV Shows

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Valeria Usala

forbidden harbor safe literary dock

Comics

The Forbidden Harbor | A safe literary dock for lost humanity

Cristina Danini

Alex Garland Devs

TV Shows

Devs | Alex Garland’s outlook on godlike tech companies

Giovanni Di Rienzo

One Hundred Years of Solitude - A palm

Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Carmen De Nisi

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Movies

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Cristina Danini

Film and projectors in an archive

TV Shows

The Man in the High Castle | “What have might been”

Sara Erriu

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

Music

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

Flavia Di Mauro

the tennis court

Sports

The Nitto ATP Finals take over Torino

Isabella Cagna

Circulus at Progeny 3, Leamington Spa

Music

The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent

Jacopo Soru

Sebastian Diaz Morales' Suspension creates a fantastic allegory for contemporary society. The film shows a figure floating in an undefined emptiness.

Contemporary Art

Suspension is an allegory for contemporary society

Christine Bax

The rural motel of a small city called Schitt

TV Shows

Schitt’s Creek | Not a regular family

Federica Gandolfo

Ode to Psyche - John Keats

Poems

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

Sofia Fiorini

Community College

TV Shows

Community | The best college to attend

Federica Gandolfo

Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank

Movies

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Skye Kuppig

Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen chugging a bottle of champagne in Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round

Movies

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Skye Kuppig

Catwoman Loeb Sale

Comics

Catwoman: When in Rome | A perspective on elegance

Gabriele Iuliano

Grand Budapest Hotel | A romantic adventure in a fairy tale world - Monsieur Gustave H., Agatha and Zero

Movies

Grand Budapest Hotel | A romantic adventure in a fairy tale world

Cristina Danini

Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner's Rise | A Call to Action - Bergamot

Poems

Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner’s Rise | A Call to Action

Elena Traina

Gantz

Comics

Gantz looks for a meaning in a life resembling a hazardous videogame

Giovanni Di Rienzo

High Fidelity's protagonist Robert works as a record shop owner. This image shows some vintage vinyls

Books

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

Alessia Sciannamblo

Still from if Beale Street Could Talk, Red Umbrella on Minetta lane

Movies

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Skye Kuppig

Siddhartha | Siddhartha | Buddha's path to enlightenment - Buddha

Books

Siddhartha | Buddha’s path to enlightenment

Margherita Pescarin

"A Success Unexpected in Common Hours" | Walden, or Life in the Woods - A view of the woods surrounding Walden Pond. Autumn.

Books

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

Flavia Di Mauro

An evening with Silk Sonic | Rediscovering retro vibes

Music

An evening with Silk Sonic | Rediscovering retro vibes

Isabella Cagna

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, two superheroes facing each other

TV Shows

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | What does it mean to be American

Giulia Orati

Normal People: Marianne and Connell sitting in the tall grass.

TV Shows

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Valeria Usala

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Poems

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Agnese Mosconi

In The Deposition From the Cross, Jacopo Pontormo gives an unconventional take on the deposition of Christ.

Art

Pontormo’s unconventional Deposition From the Cross

Valentina Manganaro

In Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin's Soap Bubbles, a childhood game becomes a metaphor for the impermanence of life.

Art

Chardin’s Soap Bubbles portrays life in pastel tones

Valentina Manganaro

Rosebud leaf - Rich

Poems

Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone

Roberta Truscia

Pontic Rhododendron - Beckett

Poems

Samuel Beckett’s Cascando | The agony of love

Maria Cristina Parenti

Sano di Pietro's Nativity of the Virgin

Art

Sano di Pietro’s Nativity of the Virgin | The Mary’s first day

Valentina Manganaro

solanin asano

Comics

Solanin | The worst part about growing up

Antonella Massaro

The Majesty - Enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, whether or not accompanied with angels and saints.

Art

The Majesty of Simone Martini in Siena

Valentina Manganaro

Sherlock Holmes' violin

TV Shows

Sherlock | The beloved investigative loner

Giulia Orati

Begonia

Poems

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Maria Cristina Parenti

Portal

Video Games

Portal | Rethinking the FPS

Jordi Ferrer Torres

I Know This Much is True - Dominick is sitting on the edge of a waterfall and reads the notes his mother gave him about the story of his grandfather

TV Shows

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Valeria Usala

A woman is sitting at a desk inside an office and another woman is standing in front of her, discussing an investigation case

TV Shows

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Valeria Usala

The work Balloons on the Sea, by Turkish artist Hale Tenger, consists of one main video, projected on the wall, and six videos spread throughout the room.

Contemporary Art

Balloons on the Sea brings to mind synesthesia

Christine Bax

Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell in “The Morning Show,”

TV Shows

The Morning Show | A story about power

Valeria Usala

Houses at Murnau - Kandinsky Artwork

Art

Houses at Murnau | Simply and colorful inspirations

Valentina Manganaro

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity - Daylily

Poems

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

Sofia Fiorini

Saint Peter and Saint Paul | The new Renaissance standards - The statues' location is the Loggia della Mercanzia, in Siena, Italy

Art

Saint Peter and Saint Paul | The new Renaissance standards

Valentina Manganaro

TV Shows

Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy

Agnese Mosconi

The Eight Mountains | Everyone has a peak to climb

Books

The Eight Mountains | Peaks to climb in life

Cristina Danini

Happier than Ever is Billie Eilish’ second studio album

Music

Happier than Ever | Billie Eilish’s coming of age

Isabella Cagna

A village

TV Shows

The Good Place could be a better place

Leonardo Vitali

The BLM Banksy statue contributes to the discussion about tearing down the many other colonialist statues and statues of slave traders around the world.

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Statue honors a time of change

Christine Bax

Monster Allergy Title

Comics

Monster Allergy | Zick, Elena and the contrast in life

Gabriele Iuliano

The Song of Songs - Rambler Rose (Rosa multiflora)

Poems

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

Sofia Fiorini

Pesaro Altarpiece

Art

The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting

Valentina Manganaro

Lady on a beach - scene from the film Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Movies

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

Skye Kuppig

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

Poems

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

Agnese Mosconi

A young Elizabeth (Claire Foy) is surrounded by church representatives on the day of her coronation

TV Shows

The Crown | Royalty & the Grey Zone

Letizia Bastonero

Selma - An old photo of the front line of the Selma to Montgomery march 1965 w/ Martin Luther King Jr.

Movies

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

Skye Kuppig

Two hands holding each other, one of the mother and the other of the newborn child

TV Shows

This is Us | How life is the perfect mix of sweet and sour

Valeria Usala

The New City, Antonio Sant'Elia, 1914.

Art

La Città Futurista | Futurama and Futurism

Annamaria Russo

De Castro - Chilean Bellflower

Poems

The Atmosphere Is Incandescent | De Castro’s Journey Inward

Elena Traina

Poems

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

Agnese Mosconi

No One Writes Back | A journey of letters | letters

Books

No One Writes Back | A journey of letters

Giulia Viganò

Saint Young Men

Comics

Saint Young Men | God’s human side

Gabriele Iuliano

Between the World and me talks about the black body, an issue that has been recently shared by the Black Lives Matter movement

Books

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

Alessia Sciannamblo

Books

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Alessia Sciannamblo

In the Mood for Love shapes solitude and expectation. It does so through locations as well. This image shows two tree trunks inside the ancient temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Angkor Wat is an important location in the movie.

Movies

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Andrea Donini

Two protagonists from the film Parasite

Movies

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Skye Kuppig

The Flight Attendant | The room

TV Shows

The Flight Attendant | The room where everything changed

Cristina Danini

Emily, Lorelai and Rory. The Gilmore Girls

TV Shows

Gilmore Girls | An everlasting flavor of friendship

Letizia Bastonero

Everything Hans Ulrich Obrist Always Wanted to Know - The artwork: cover detail

Contemporary Art

Everything Hans Ulrich Obrist Always Wanted to Know…

Christine Bax

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de' Medici's ballade - Orange Lily

Poems

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de’ Medici’s ballade

Maria Cristina Parenti

Stevie Smith - Fritillary

Poems

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

Roberta Truscia

Master of None

TV Shows

Master of None | Different stories, same show

Federica Gandolfo

At Newport 1960 - An old photos

Music

At Newport 1960 is a blues fresco impossible to resist

Jacopo Soru

Dahlias - Mary Oliver

Poems

The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver

Sofia Fiorini

Movies

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Skye Kuppig

The crossdresser's secret - Portrait of the Chevalier D'Eon

Contemporary Art

The Crossdresser’s Secret and the story of Chevalier d’Eon

Christine Bax

The Caravaggio's Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Art

The Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Annamaria Russo

Creuza de Mä | Fabrizio De André’s Sea Changing Masterpiece - Old fishing net in the fishing port of Trapani, in Sicily.

Music

Creuza de Mä | Fabrizio De André’s Sea Changing Milestone

Flavia Di Mauro

House, M.D. | Diagnostics becomes investigation

TV Shows

House, M.D. | When diagnostics becomes investigation

Cristina Danini

Veronica Mars | Neo-noir shines in teen drama

TV Shows

Veronica Mars | When teen drama meets neo-noir

Cristina Danini

A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes - A homemade apple pie

Books

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

Cristina Danini

Sidney 2000 | To learn how to swim and to become a myth | Sidney Landscape

Sports

Sydney 2000 | To learn how to swim and to become a myth

Nicola Maria Fioni

The Stockholm library

Books

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Alessia Sciannamblo

Bombay Rose's protagonist Kamala spins against a pink backdrop

Movies

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Skye Kuppig

The Man Standing Next Still from the Movie by Woo Min HO

Movies

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Skye Kuppig

A production still from The Trial of the Chicago 7 featuring the defendants in the courtroom

Movies

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Skye Kuppig

Amy Adams in Arrival

Movies

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Giorgio Reclama

Salgado's exhibition Amazonia

Contemporary Art

Amazônia | Salgado’s 2021 exhibition in Paris

Maëva Le Roux

Theatrical Poster for Kubrick's 1962 Lolita

Books

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Alessia Sciannamblo

Sixty Stories | Dino Buzzati's fantastic reality - dark spiral staircase

Books

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

Giulia Viganò

An illustrative image from the movie Soul (Disney-Pixar, 2020)

Movies

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

Antonella Massaro

Oedipus, Kavafis - Red Gladiolus

Poems

Kavafis’ Oedipus | Life is full of unsolvable riddles

Agnese Mosconi

A shuriken depicting the symbol of the superhero Batman, also known as "The Dark Knight"

Movies

The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror

Andrea Donini

A scene from the movie Manchester By The Sea

Movies

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Iside Sparagio

Soldiers of Salamis | A writer's version - A black and white picture of a tank

Books

Soldiers of Salamis | A writer’s version

Flavia Di Mauro

Dear white people - A black woman inside a recording studio is holding her headphones

TV Shows

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

Valeria Usala

Invisible Cities, a love poem to the city - black and white photo of Venice

Books

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

Giulia Viganò

British artist Banksy released his BLM Painting in June 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests following George Floyd's death.

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Painting exposes a white problem

Christine Bax

Emilija Škarnulytė-Aldnona

Contemporary Art

Aldona | History, memories and rebirth

Veronica Schirru

Hollywood is a Netflix miniseries created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The TV show reimagines and rewrites the history of the Golden Age of Hollywood through a progressive and inclusive lens.

TV Shows

Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of cinema

Andrea Donini

A black and white film still from Rebecca

Movies

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Skye Kuppig

Capeside's dock

TV Shows

Dawson’s Creek | Teen drama revolution

Sara Erriu

Tales from the Loop | A guide on how to accept Time

TV Shows

Tales from the Loop | A guide on how to accept Time

Lucia Marinelli

San Girolamo -St. Jerome reading in his studio, painted by Antonello da Messina, 1475 ca.

Art

Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography

Valentina Manganaro

Hollow Knight | Promo image

Video Games

Hollow Knight | No cost too great

Antonella Massaro

The film Tightrope, by Russian artist Taus Makhacheva, shows Rasul Abakarov crossing a canyon carrying 61 works from the Dagestani Museum of Fine Art.

Contemporary Art

Tightrope is a balancing act between art and history

Christine Bax

Contemporary Art

Celebrating Women in Abstraction at Centre Pompidou

Helena Sinibaldi

Petunia - Rimbaud

Poems

My Bohemia | Rimbaud’s longing for freedom

Sofia Fiorini

A silhouette of Lupin in front of a huge clock

TV Shows

Lupin | The gentleman thief who never dies

Cristina Danini

Pride and Prejudice -

Books

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Matilde Castagnone

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventure of Robinson Crusoe - Illustration by Walter Paget

Books

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Flavia Di Mauro

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

TV Shows

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | It’s comedy time

Letizia Bastonero

Crosby Stills & Nash | A Matter of Balance - Crosby Stills and Nash at a Concert, August, 1974

Music

Crosby, Stills & Nash | A matter of balance

Flavia Di Mauro

Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Sports

Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Marco Massera

A red neon heart.

Books

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Burnout Society | Han against freedom

Books

The Burnout Society | Han against freedom

Francesco Merlino

C'era due volte il Barone Lamberto | One life is not enough

Books

C’era due volte il Barone Lamberto | One life is not enough

Cristina Danini

The Queen Is Dead is a great leap forward

Music

The Queen Is Dead | A great leap forward

Vanessa Cammarota

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Movies

Tick, Tick… Boom! | Tribute to Jonathan Larson and creativity

Andrea Donini

A men risks drowning while looking at his phone, in a Selfie scene

Movies

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Skye Kuppig

Berserk Black Swordsman

Comics

Berserk | The path of the Black Swordsman

Giovanni Di Rienzo

Bridgerton is a revolutionary period romance. The TV show aims to be a more inclusive version of a genre in which tradition is characterized by a predominance of white characters. The image shows Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte (based on real historical speculation regarding Queen Charlotte's African ancestry).

TV Shows

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

Andrea Donini

Dr. Meredith Grey is the protagonist of Grey's Anatomy, a pillar in the modern TV era

TV Shows

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris - A view of Paris from a rooftop in daytime

TV Shows

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris

Letizia Bastonero

Underworld - New York picture in black and white

Books

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Alessia Sciannamblo

A scene from Captain Fantastic

Movies

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Nadia Corvino

Vintage tiger flower - Rupi Kaur.

Poems

Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets

Agnese Mosconi

Joanna Piotrowska Self-defence How to translate through gesture

Contemporary Art

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Veronica Schirru

A part of the vault frescos of Correggio's Camera della Badessa.

Art

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Valentina Manganaro

A rolling egg from the web site

Contemporary Art

Eggalone .com plays with digital space perception

Christine Bax

John Donne's Batter my heart | Gentiana Acaulis

Poems

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

Maria Cristina Parenti

The Official Poster for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 was unveiled in Paris on Friday to coincide with International Women’s Day.

Sports

2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup | Dare to shine

Matilde Castagnone

Muses and women celebration | Polyhymnia - A colors dance

Music

Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

View from La Morra, Piedmont, Italy.

Books

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

Alessia Sciannamblo

Will & Grace

TV Shows

Will & Grace | Breaking taboos and making TV history

Andrea Donini

1980 Wimbledon final | The clash of styles to be immortal - Borg vs McEnroe

Sports

1980 Wimbledon | The clash of styles to be immortal

Marco Massera

Exciting Times | A millennial novel about identity and idleness  | two toothbrushes

Books

Exciting Times | A millennial novel about identity and idleness 

Cecilia Pizzaghi

The Father | A psychological thriller in disguise

Movies

The Father | A psychological thriller in disguise

Giulia Orati

500 Letters is a digital artist statement generator, created by the Belgian artist Jasper Rigole as a provocation against artist spaces.

Contemporary Art

500 Letters questions accessibility within the art world

Christine Bax

Great Expectations - Dickens's Dream

Books

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Alessia Sciannamblo

Trying

TV Shows

Trying | An amusing glimpse into adoption

Sara Erriu

Still from a dance sequence in Dark City Beneath the Beat

Movies

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Skye Kuppig

Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, Francisco de Goya, 1795, Collection of the Duke of Alba - A detail

Art

Goya’s White Duchess | Fashion, naïve art, magic realism

Helena Santidrián Mas

An Image of Kwade's work Weltenlinie

Contemporary Art

Alicja Kwade’s WeltenLinie interacts with the surroundings

Christine Bax

Gozzano’s farewell to sadness | Balsamroot

Poems

The Ultimate Infidelity | Gozzano’s farewell to sadness

Sofia Fiorini

The Queen's Gambit - Beth Harmon is sitting in a room full of people during an important chess match, opening with the Queen's Gambit

TV Shows

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Valeria Usala

Sitting cows in the grass.

Music

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Jacopo Soru

Camille Henrot Grosse Fatigue

Contemporary Art

Grosse fatigue | The Inexhaustible nature of knowledge

Veronica Schirru

A picture of The Shock of the Future's protagonist

Movies

The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters

Skye Kuppig

Loki

TV Shows

Loki | The God of Mischief is back (again)

Giulia Orati

Grace is a pure drop in an ocean of noise.

Music

Grace | A pure drop in an ocean of noise

Vanessa Cammarota

BTS's BE album | An honest message of perseverance - Sunrise in Seul

Music

BTS’s BE album | An honest message of perseverance

Isabella Cagna

Poe - Black poisonous flower

Poems

The Raven | Poe’s study on paranoia

Agnese Mosconi

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