books – Starfinancer

Night before exams. On the new Robinson dedicated to maturity

The cover of Robinson on newsstands from Saturday 18 June. It begins with a tale of Francesco Piccolo which retraces the rites and the epic, from the race to guess the traces to the true obsession of the students of all schools: the internal members and the external members, up to the wonderful “after” that…

Posto Sinceri, an ode to the taverns of a Milan that resists

Far from the sequins and glitter of cosmopolitan Milan, there is another city, forgotten and little told, whose foundations are well rooted in the family management of activities related to catering. A real and true Milan that speaks to the heart and with a straight voice, without the typical anglicisms of the pseudo managerial faunas…

Premio Strega 2022, seven books in the final for the first time. Desiati the most voted

BENEVENTO – AND’ Mario Desiati with Spatriate (Einaudi) to conquer the first place among the finalists of the Strega prize, announced at the Roman Theater of Benevento on the notes of No sleep. With 244 votes Desiati was the most voted. In second place Claudio Piersanti with That accursed Vronsky (Rizzoli, 178 votes); third Marco…

A metropolitan 1968 in Ogliastra: the ungrammatical love of Giancarlo Mirone

In 1973 for the author the first teaching assignment in a small hillside village in Ogliastra, in the center of Sardinia. A metropolitan 1968 student catapulted into a rural clod of the time struggling with a sixth grade, the “worst” of the school, with whom to share 18 hours a week, ten in the morning…

The story. The sea

That rock protruding from the foam seemed bothered by the spray of the water. I have been here for much longer than you – he seemed to say – but you know the sea has no time, it is something that was born together with everything and had the arrogance of having always been the…

The story. Odabella

Matilde Lampronti had stopped singing overnight. Not because she had lost her voice or because the businessmen no longer sought her out, but because she no longer wanted to play Violetta, Tosca or Mimi. To sing again, after what happened, she would feel pathetic, and she had stopped. As a young woman, she had studied…

Woody Allen: everything you ever wanted to know about the great director. About the new Robinson

Life: a bad business conceived without our consent that constantly generates pain but that despite everything is worth living. Him: a clumsy and awkward little Jew who has nothing heroic about him. A few months after his eighty-seventh birthday, while he started preparing his fiftieth film and on the occasion of the arrival in Italy…

With Repubblica you go back to being children: on newsstands the new series on the Montessori method

Among the first women to graduate in Medicine in Italy, at the end of the nineteenth century, with a specialization in neuropsychiatry, also an educator and philosopher, a feminist who already supported wage equality, fought against discrimination, for example in science, and fought against world illiteracy, creator of a method at the basis of infant-toddler…