La giovinezza è felice perché ha la capacità di vedere la bellezza. Chiunque sia in grado di mantenere la capacità di vedere la bellezza non diventerà mai vecchio.
(Franz Kafka)
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A recent conversation at Westminster Central Hall, in London, felt less like a public talk and more like a rare moment of unfiltered thinking. In dialogue with journalist Stephen Sackur to present his latest book On Censorship, Ai Weiwei spoke with calm directness about censorship, power, and personal responsibility.
Few people have lived a life as rich in adventure, romance, and transformation as Pamela O’Cuneen.
She talks with us about her latest memoir With All My Soul, her deep connection to Italy, and the magic of a life well-travelled.
On Friday, May 3rd, I had the privilege of being one of the guest speakers at The Aftermath in Hong Kong for Jun Pan's presentation of her debut work The Palm Reader, a captivating collection of interconnected short stories, poems, and photos, filled with vibrant and colourful pages, published by CP Cambridge.
Looking for Eliza is the original title, but we have a certain inclination for the Italian one - which translates Two Cups of Tea at Swinburne Road – because it conveys a more romantic, and "English", geolocation. We talk about it with the author, 31-year-old Leaf Arburhnot, assistant editor of The Week magazine and freelance journalist, whose reviews and articles have been published in magazines such as Vogue, The Sunday Times and The Spectator.
Akhil Patel is the co-founder and Director of Property Sharemarket Economics, an investment research service that teaches subscribers how to ‘remember the future’ based on leading knowledge of economic and financial cycles. We have met him to talk about his recently published book The Secret Wealth Advantage.
Entrepreneur who has always been involved in social work, as well as director of L'Indice dei Libri del Mese and former president of the Turin Book Fair, Mario Montalcini has an innate love for culture in all its forms of expression. We met him on the eve of the launch of Index Review, his new global publishing project.
With works published in 100 countries and more than 51 languages Jeffrey Archer is one of the top 25 fiction authors of all time. His books have sold over 275 million copies worldwide and he is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).
To mark the publication of his latest book Next in Line, he tells us about his work, his dreams, and much more.
(Story freely inspired by Emilio Salgari's Black Corsair)
The Black Corsair was a tall, slender man with an elegant bearing. His features were beautiful: a regular nose, two small lips, red like coral, a wide forehead furrowed with a slight wrinkle, which gave his face a melancholy air, and two eyes as black as charcoals with a perfect cut, vivid and animated, surrounded by long and lush lashes.
One day the Corsair arrived in Cadiz, a town located along the southwestern coast of Spain. For some time, in fact, it had been rumoured that a magical treasure was to be found right here…
