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A Man Out of Time

Dino Buzzati’s accidental realism

Digging in the Crates

by Hari Kunzru,

For some months I’ve been living in Rome, up on the hill called the Gianicolo, which slopes down to the western bank of the Tiber. In antiquity it was the…

A Farewell to Arms

by Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein,

From “Sitting-Down Literature,” which was written in 1970 and is included in The Written World and the Unwritten World, out this month from Mariner Books. Translated from the Italian. Sitting…

A Crew of Variegated Weirdos

by Lucy Sante,

On an anthology of Oulipo

Visible Cities

by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin,

From Italo Calvino: Letters 1941–1985, out this month from Princeton University Press. Franco Maria Ricci, a publisher, commissioned Calvino to prepare a text for a volume containing reproductions of the…

Leftovers

by Italo Calvino,Translated by Tim Parks,

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