Apples don’t fall far from the tree, they say. This is true. But this is only true apparently. Of course, Newton got an apple on his head precisely because the apple fell at the foot of the tree under which he was meditating. Those juicy fruits, which suggested the law […]
Anna Lacci
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I leave behind me the things I don’t understand, the things I can’t change, the hostile gaze of those who don’t know you, the plastic bottles, the city full of absence, the cell phones that steal time. I leave the world of winners, of those who feel like winners, the […]
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, a poet and essayist of Indian and Filipino origins, teaches Literature and Creative Writing in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi. Her book World of Wonders, which we strongly recommend, has been translated worldwide and is largely considered by the press to be one of the […]
Established by the United Nations in 1970, Earth Day aims to raise public awareness of environmental protection. They chose the date of April 22nd of each year, i.e. one month and one day after the spring equinox, to underline the need to save the Planet’s natural resources and to give […]
Telmo Pievani in La vita inaspettata (The unexpected life), published in 2011, starts with Darwin, who he defines as the man who was the first to have the courage to «go beyond the mark»; he starts where Gould left off in concluding La vita meravigliosa (The Wonderful Life), and finally […]