Europa Compass (28 Listed volumes)
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Christopher Prendergast
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime’s reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. -
Andrea Marcolongo
Starting from Scratch
From the international best-selling author of The Ingenious Language, a meditation on resistance and renewal that is at once a fascinating portrait of antiquity’s most complex and surprisingly modern hero. -
Gideon Defoe
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once... -
Massimo Montanari
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognisable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encounters, dialogue, and exchange. Is it possible to identify a starting point in history... -
Massimo Montanari
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognisable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encounters, dialogue, and exchange. Is it possible to identify a starting point in history... -
Adriana Valerio
Mary Magdalene
From one of Italy’s most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christianity’s most complex—and most misunderstood—figures: Mary Magdalene Jesus’ favorite and most devoted disciple? A prostitute shunned from her community? A symbol of female leadership... -
Aldo Schiavone
What Is Progress
Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is... -
Gideon Defoe
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once... -
Miguel Benasayag
The Tyranny of Algorithms
A clear-eyed, timely investigation of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence to individual freedom, social cohesion, and the democratic process—and a radical proposal on how to fight back. In this sharp, urgent book, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and former resistance fighter Miguel... -
Carlo Piano, Renzo Piano
Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty
From Genoa to Ithaca, a personal journey in search of the perfect city, and a reflection on architecture.