Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), ...

Italo Calvino was discreet about his life and the lives of others, and skeptical about the uses of biography. He understood that much of the world we inhabit is made up of signs, and that signs ...

Kathryn Hume, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (Clarendon Press, 1992) Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production. Show less ...

Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings, Italo Calvino, Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Pantheon: 256 pp. $23 Inventing Calvino - Los Angeles Times ...

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.

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, trans. from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $13.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-544-14667-9 When Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler ...

On this month’s fiction podcast, Robert Coover reads Italo Calvino’s short story “The Daughters of the Moon,” which first appeared in The New Yorker in 2009.

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.