Italo Calvino's Into the War and Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, two posthumously published books of short fiction, contrast greatly but deliver stimulating reading experiences.

T he novel Invisible Cities by Italian write Italo Calvino narrates a fictional encounter between Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and a certain young Venetian explorer. Nearing the end of his life, the ...

Giovanna Calvino, an adjunct literature professor at NYU, is currently creating a new Web series of fashionable book talks called “Amateur Thursdays,” which, according to a post on the … ...

Italo Calvino Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics and If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and collector and translator of Italian fables.

In October 1959, the Italian novelist Italo Calvino set sail for America. He was one of seven writers sponsored by the Ford Foundation to make a literary tour of the U.S., and his curriculum vitae ...

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 To Michele Rago—Milan Cinquale, 27.7.68 Dear Michele, […]Can you believe that it was only the day before yesterday that I got your letter of 15 May which had been sent on from Paris?