Category: Books
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It is 1990 and Maali Almeida (‘Photographer. Gambler. Slut.’) is new to his ghost non-body, hovering over his town, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Around his neck hangs the Nikon, now broken, that he’s been using to shoot pictures of the past years of civil war, of the bodies it left behind, often civilians, and of journalists, terrorists…
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In this essay-pamphlet, Michela Murgia enters the debate on surrogacy, which has been on the Italian political agenda over the past few years. With the hostility of the present government towards this practice, surrogacy has very recently been declared ‘Universal crime’.
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This slim novel turns into a faceted mirror of a present that tries to make sense of itself, and to find answers for the future…
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The PowerBook reads like poetry, as a place to go back to. It is a little volume where to get lost, and then start again from any point. There is a fancy-dress shop in an old London House, near where Jack the Ripper was said to have lived. Masked as such, the shop is the…
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Emanuele Trevi’s elegant writing brings us on the footsteps of the narrator’s father, building a fantastic portrait of the old man. After sharing memories of his lifetime, the symbol for the father becomes his old house, initially set on sale.
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Post by @federicabalbi It is with terrible honesty and with acute lucidity, that Ada D’Adamo tells the story of her own life since the birth of her daughter Daria, who was born with a level of disability of 100% due to the brain malformation known as holoprosencephaly. At the turn of fifty, Ada is diagnosed…
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One of the men was caught red-handed, so the women are talking. It’s the first time in their lives that they take the agency to gather and react. For four years, between 2005 and 2009, women and girls of the Mennonite colony have been knocked unconscious with belladonna spray and raped by the men of…
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When space and time collapse, and reality is ruled by machines, what is the part of humans, beyond waiting?
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This is not a novel for hope. It is rather a warning for humanity, and a eulogy for the Earth. It acquires a scientific point of view that invalidates the rhetoric of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, thus offering a point of view that makes it possible to anesthetise the tragedy, the latter being already unstoppable and…
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Post by @federicabalbi Il sisma de L’Aquila nel racconto di Donatella di Pietrantonio Durante il terremoto c’è un silenzio irreale. Si attende la fine di questa scossa, così come di tutte quelle che l’hanno preceduta. Il 6 aprile 2009 però, alle 3:32 del mattino, la terra ha tremato più a lungo, insieme alle case e…
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