Aashna Miharia

3 weeks ago | nyunews.com | Alexa Donovan |Aashna Miharia |Hannah Marr |Chloe Haack

“Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino — Alexa Donovan, Arts Editor “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” Italo Calvino’s famed surrealist novel follows a conversation between Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan and Venetian explorer Marco Polo. As Khan worries about the state of his empire, Polo details tales of the cities he’s explored within it.