focus on school and literary Milan – Corriere.it

The new issue of «la Lettura», #602, already available in the App, will be on newsstands on Wednesday 14 June. Among the focuses of the issue, ample space is dedicated to the state of health of a fundamental institution, the school, a few days after the case of Abbiategrasso, in which a teacher was stabbed by a student. The dialogue is between Rita Pappalardo, head teacher of the Visconti classical high school in Rome, and the philologist, former university professor Luigi Spina, curated by the classicist Donatella Puliga: and the themes are the training of teachers, the fears of students, the distances from society.

Among the other highlights of the issue: a service by Gianni Santucci trace a map of the houses and streets of Milan where the authors who have narrated the soul of the city livedUgo Foscolo, Stendhal, but also Giovanni Verga and Giovanni Testori, places often not reported or lost: a reconnaissance of literary Milan that also becomes a map, with illustrations by Antonio Monteverdi and photographs by Rossella Papetti, Alessandro Bremec and Stefano Porta / LaPresse.

In addition to the most recent number of the insert in preview already on Saturday, the App of «la Lettura» for smartphones and tablets also offers the archive of all the issues released since 2011 and the Theme of the Day, a digital-only daily extra: that of Wednesday 14 June, signed by Vincent Trioneis dedicated to Piero Manzoni whose art, and whose provocations, are placed on the line of the informal outlining a vision and a way of placing oneself towards the world. On «la Lettura» #602, available in the App and from Wednesday also on newsstands, Chiara Severgnini’s interview with the cartoonist Paolo Bacilieri (Verona, 1965), author of a biographical graphic novel on Piero Manzoni to be released by the end of the summer for Coconino Press: some boards will be on display from Thursday 15 June to 30 July at «Love Comics», an exhibition set up at the Mar di Ravenna which is inaugurated on the occasion of the Coconino Fest review. Other «Themes» available in the App are the incipit of the novel de The centenarian with the gunthe second novel by the writer, screenwriter and director Benoît Philippon, translated by Rossella Monaco and Letizia Fusini for Ponte alle Grazie: and in «la Lettura» #602 Philippon is interviewed by Stephen Montefiori; is that of Matteo Trevisan which is an insight into the panorama of new Asian science fiction. on «Reading» #602 among the reviews, the same Treviso

reads one of the authors of the new wave from the Asian science fictionthe Chinese Han Songauthor of Red Ocean. Our past / Our present (Add editions). Subscribing to the App costs €3.99 a month or €39.99 a year, with one week free. The subscription can also be subscribed from the desktop starting from this page. For subscribers, the contents are also visible from PCs and Macs starting from their Profile page. Furthermore, a one-year subscription to the App can be given as a gift via the web from here or by purchasing a Gift Card in Librerie.coop.

Returning to the new issue, the Books section opens with the theme of the edition of Taobuk which will take place in Taormina (Messina) from Thursday 15 to Monday 19 June: h Freedomin the plural
. Two guests expected at the festival intervene in «la Lettura» to reflect on the subject: Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux evokes the tragedy of the migrant child who drowned in the waters off Tunisia, reflecting on the fact that in today’s society goods have greater freedom of transit than people; the essayist and popularizer David Quammenwho prophesied the risk of the pandemic, reflects on a recent tragedy in Texas: in the name of a misunderstood idea of ​​”freedom” (without respect for one’s neighbor), a man shot his neighbors who were complaining about the noise, killing five people.

A futuristic concept is that of «superstate»an evolution of the current state model, which requires a long time: writes Anthony Pagden in the new essay Beyond the States (il Mulino), and talks about it in «la Lettura» to Fabio Deotto. But if the transformation times in social organizations are long, the transformations in biological structures are even longer, including consciousness: the theme is dedicated the volume of two biologists, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka, Figures of the mind (Raffaello Cortina, with illustrations by Anna Zeligowski), and one of the authors, Eva Jablonka, talks about it to Telmo Pievani.