Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist ...

Katy Waldman writes about “Last Comes the Raven,” a collection of early stories by Italo Calvino, in which we find the man behind the magician.

Lawrence Norfolk reviews "Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985," edited by Michael Wood.

In 1983, the town of Ravello bestowed honorary citizenship on Gore Vidal. To mark the occasion, Italy’s most celebrated writer, Italo Calvino, offered his friend an encomium that quickly became ...

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities might be labeled travelogue. It was, in fact, the traveler in me that first fell under its spell. The places Calvino describes, though, don't exist on any map.

Italo Calvino. Selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin. Princeton Univ, $39.50 (662p) ISBN 978-0-691-13945-6 Acclaimed Italian author ...

On November 13, the Society of Illustrators in New York City hosted a panel and reception in honor of its current exhibit “Italian Excellence: Illustrations for Italo Calvino.” ...

Italo Calvino's delightful "cosmicomic" stories have long been scattered — split into separate books and translated in pieces. Now, a collection new to the U.S. is finally bringing them together.

The 12 short stories that make up Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics mix scientific erudition and wild fantasy to tell a wonderfully unique story of creation. Salman Rushdie calls it "possibly the most ...

Merve Emre writes on a new collection of Calvino essays, “The Written World and the Unwritten World,” and assesses the career of the great Italian novelist.