It’s a small world. It keeps re-crossing itself
I saw you pray with your eyes closed, holding a pearl rosary in your hands, wearing your kippah, sitting, kneeling, tired, but strong in… Read more
Fasten your seat-belts
In life and on flights sometimes you cannot choose. Airlines are shocking, in this regard: when you are boarding, some of them ask you if… Read more
Ode to Summer
Drawing things with your hands, outside the car windows, the warm wind touching you like a long-lost lover. Sleeping in my bed, wearing my short-sleeved… Read more
At the end of the journey
At the end of this tragicomic tale, one of two things: you will consider me either a snob or a liar. You will think I… Read more
When technology fails: observational exercise on a slow regional train between Milan and Turin in winter 2015
Milan Central station is behind me. On a rail track beside the one I am travelling on I see a yellow wagon. Someone drew… Read more
Anita, Astrid, Benny
I don’t like this seat. The middle one. Row 17. For a moment, I find it strange that Row 17 exists on flights. Then, I… Read more
Stop it now: airports
Behaviours that stun me when I travel. Part 1. Warning: this is going to be a controversial article. No diplomatic intermission has been granted. Read more
Are you going somewhere nice?
Detachment, but also over-population: in airports, we are all too close and simultaneously too far away from each other. We hide behind a pair… Read more
Why I travel
I travel because I need to remind myself that normality does not exist: the points of view are by definition partial, and we all follow… Read more
36 windows
They decided to paint the walls in their flat. A bin full of brushes leans against the second window of their balcony on the first… Read more
Change: an interview with Nicola Bertellotti
For a good while, I’ve been interested in places that are changing. As you know, I wrote my latest book (“L’Atlante… Read more
D.I.C.A.N.E.M.P. Everything and the opposite of everything
I wrote a glossary. It is a list of random letters. It includes everything and the opposite of everything. It does not aim to… Read more
How not to give in: 5 movies about happiness
I don’t take psychotropic drugs to keep my mood up at the moment and no, I don’t live on the moon. I live with my… Read more