EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie‘s TIFF world premiere Without Blood is based on Alessandro Baricco‘s intriguing novel which is set a time of war, but the location and era aren’t defined. The movie follows a ...

I first read Alessandro Baricco's Silk in 1998, in its English translation by Guido Waldman. The book — a tale of travel, passion and mysterious, silent communication — resonated with me immediately.

ROME — Italian author Alessandro Baricco’s English-language directorial debut “Lesson 21,” will world preem at the upcoming 61st Locarno International Film Festival with stars Noah Taylor, Clive ...

As workmen chat around him in a dust-strewn former army barracks in Turin, writer and director Alessandro Baricco explains why, despite appearances, his latest cultural undertaking does not feel so ...

"The Iliad," Homer's epic poem about the siege of Troy, has long fueled the Western world's literary imagination, as its characters, plot and themes have been adapted again and again over the ...

This new version of the classic tale of Don Juan is part of Save the Story series, a scheme to 'save great stories from oblivion by retelling them for a new, younger generation'. It cannot be denied ...

Consider this random line: "I'm eighteen years old and already happiness has the savor of memory." Terse and elegant, perfect. Four Italian youth contend with anomie in the immediate aftermath of ...

City, by Alessandro Baricco. Alfred A. Knopf. 326 pages. $25. Alessandro Baricco, the bestselling author of Silk and popular Italian television personality, has a reputation for blurring the ...