“Every choice has an obverse, that is to say a renunciation,” the narrator of “The Castle of Crossed Destinies,” a shapeshifting late novel by Italo Calvino, observes. If this man is right—and he ...
The just-released Italo Calvino: Letters, covering over 40 years of the acclaimed writer's life, were selected by MIchael Wood, professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton. Wood ...
Who any longer remembers or broods on Italy in the 1950s and 1960s? It was the era of a severe sadness—whether in the cinema of Rossellini and Antonioni, or the artistic thinking of Alighiero Boetti, ...
Italo Calvino has a habit that's hard not to find disconcerting. Halfway through a story, or even a few sentences in, he often pauses — briefly, glibly — to mention in passing that everything he has ...
At a party in London recently, an Italian man asked me what I was working on. To my reply that I was writing a review of Italo Calvino’s nonfiction, he said the mere thought of reading Calvino gave ...
Eric Weiner's latest book is Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine. Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities might be labeled travelogue. It was, in fact, the traveler in me that first fell under its ...
This week on Page-Turner, we’ll have a series of excerpts from “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985” translated by Martin McLaughlin. What follows is an introduction by Michael Wood, and the first ...
Michael Mewshaw is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, "Shelter From the Storm: A Novel" and "Do I Owe You Something?: A Memoir of the Literary Life." In 1983, the town of Ravello ...
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