Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was an American novelist, essayist, editor, and professor. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was also the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her 1987 novel “Beloved”, and of many more awards.She wrote a volume of poetry, “Five Poems” (2002),… Read More Toni Morrison Day
Herbert George Wells (1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer considered the father of modern science fiction, along with Jules Verne. His work “The Time Machine” is the first great novel to imagine time travel and can be considered both a scientific parable and a class… Read More 🛸 “We are always getting away from the present moment” (H.G. Wells) 🛸
Last Sunday I went to the Theatre (Piccolo Teatro Grassi), in Milan, to see ‘Fine pena: ora’, a play based on the exchange of letters between a lifer, Salvatore, and Elvio Fassone, the judge who condemned him at the end of a maxi trial against the Catania mafia held in Turin in the mid-eighties. The… Read More A play: “Fine pena: ora”
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