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In the Bec-da-Gaz bar, towards the end of 1932, philosopher Raymond Aron made a statement that would kickstart the development of...

In 2020 I read 69 books, fiction and non-fiction and all very different. So it was of course hard to pick favourites. But here are my top...

Imagine you had the opportunity to try on different lives – parallel (or perpendicular) to the one you lead. Who and where would you be,...

Over the past few weeks I read my way through the 2020 Booker Prize Shortlist – and a month after Shuggie Bain has been announced the...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...

I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...

“The only people for me are the mad one, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same...

(English version below) Accabadora è un termine sardo che descrive la figura responsabile di aiutare le persone in età avanzata a morire...

Everyone, please stop whatever you are doing and go read Jamaica Kincaid's essay A Small Place! This is a work about colonialism, an...

It has almost been two weeks since I finished reading Naked Lunch and I am still not sure what to make of it. Therefore, the following is...

(english version below) È Stato Così di Natalia Ginzburg (pubblicato da Einaudi, 1947) è il primo libro della scrittrice dopo la fine...

Books That Matter is a subscription service providing you with a book and little feminist gifts every month in order to highlight women's...

I am starting the month reading Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, which has been sitting on my shelves for years now. Considering that...

After loving Half of a Yellow Sun, I was eager to read more of this wonderful, intelligent woman who made me fall in love with Nigeria...

Justice in a Changing World is an introduction to the philosophical debate surrounding the question of global justice - what do we owe to...

On a hot summer day in 1935, imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis watches her older sister undress and step into a fountain in...