This is the perfect summer read. It is a beautiful novel. Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery? All of these. Entertaining and suspenseful.

Ho iniziato questo libro e non ho potuto chiuderlo, tanto è contagioso l’entusiasmo con il quale Vittorio Sgarbi ci parla di grandi artisti che per un motivo o per l’altro (come anche spiega Pierluigi Battista nella dotta prefazione, parlando della “damnatio memoriae”) sono stati messi da parte od addirittura dimenticati dopo la caduta del regime fascista perché appartenenti all'”Arte Fascista”. Sgarbi, giustamente, privilegia la figura dell’artista per se, togliendolo dall’equazione “arte – potere” ed esaltandone la qualità artistica indipendente ed assoluta. Un libro importante non solo perché fa nomi di grandi artisti trascurati dal post-fascismo (Sironi, Depero, ecc.) ma anche perché ci fa riflettere su certe prese di posizione su artisti, ed anche musicisti, di oggi.

Everybody knows Einstein, but John von Neumann has been equally important—if not even more critical—in understanding, eighty years ago, in which direction humanity was moving. Computer architecture, IA, and game theory, in brief, the tools of the future, of his future, which is the time we are living in now. An unknown genius and a bon vivant. This book is a journey through his life and, at the same moment, a history of the major physics and quantum physics discoveries in the first four decades of the 20th century. It is very clearly written and has a lot of humor, but beware: also a lot of mathematics (most of which I had—to my shame—to skip).

Federico Rampini is an experienced observer of the geopolitical global scene. His insights about the Middle East are impartial (and therefore, not everybody will like them) and pointed—even sharp, at times. This is a great book for understanding balance and development in this important region of the world.

The usual von Doderer: disdainful, sharp, ironic, cynical, and sometimes sarcastic, but with an unmatched expressive power and a deep understanding of humanity, which doesn’t let him cut himself any slack either. Not everything is agreeable, but definitely everything worth thinking about (excluding, sometimes, the spirals and linguistic twists that are, all in all, a bit old-fashioned).