In Italo Calvino’s 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies, two groups of travelers bed down for the night in a forest. One group heads for the castle. The other goes to a tavern. Under normal ...

Illustrator Thomas Hayman was commissioned to reimagine some of the Italian author’s best-known works to celebrate what would’ve been his 100th birthday Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and ...