“La Lettura” investigates endless stories – Corriere.it

In the world of stories, the balance changes: TV series have accustomed us to always waiting for a new season, and there is no longer an “end”: he explains it director Davide Ferrario in the new issue of «la Lettura», #605, on the App on Saturday 1st July and on Sunday 2nd July at the newsstand. The writer Emanuele Trevi and the cartoonist Leo Ortolani also think about it in different fields.

Many, in the issue, the interventions on literary themes: Sandro Veronesiwho takes care of the new American series of the «Corriere», tells the first volume of the series, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon (will be on newsstands Wednesday 5, 8.90 euros plus the newspaper). And it explains why it portrays America’s loss of innocence in the Reagan 1980s. Of another American voice, the Pulitzer Jean Stafford, in the library with The puma (Adelphi), writes Cristina Taglietti. Of the new book by the English Tessa Hadley, Free LoveBompiani, from 5 July) writes Livia Manera: the incipit of the book is the Theme of the Day on Saturday 1 July in the «La Lettura» App.

In addition to the Theme of the Day and the most recent number of the preview insert already on Saturdays, the «La Lettura» App for smartphones and tablets also offers the archive of all the issues released since 2011. 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.

In the recent Tasmania (Einaudi), Paul Jordan has well represented the contemporary dream of distant and uncontaminated places: in the supplement he thinks about his own way of being a responsible tourist, anticipating the intervention that will take place on Wednesday 5 July at the Literature festival in Rome (July 3-5-9-11-13).

In closing, the literary ride of Alexander Piperno in the history of the “review”, including Guido Piovene’s fierce criticism of Italo Svevo: and reflects on why today the savory taste of stroncatura has been somewhat lost.