Roberto Calasso

Jul 30, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Daisy Dunn |Jack Weatherford |Roberto Calasso |Tim Parks

“The Mongols swept across the globe as conquerors,” writes the appreciative pop anthropologist-historian Weatherford (The History of Money, 1997, etc.), “but also as civilization’s unrivaled cultural carriers.” No business-secrets fluffery here, though Weatherford does credit Genghis Khan and company for seeking “not merely to conquer the world but to impose a global order based on free trade, a single international law, and a universal alphabet with which to write all the languages of the...

Oct 20, 2023 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Roberto Calasso

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Sep 12, 2023 | shelf-awareness.com | Roberto Calasso |Richard Dixon

"The precipitous increase in book bans over the past two years represents a clear danger to the prosperity, safety, and growth of our members and their communities. Over the past year, we've seen a proliferation of bills in state legislatures that would censor books and limit access to lawful materials in schools and libraries, attempting to codify censorship into law in direct violation of the First Amendment.

Apr 20, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Matthue Roth |Franz Kafka |Peter Wortsman |Roberto Calasso

One of the most telling (yet pos­si­bly apoc­ryphal) anec­dotes about the Czech Jew­ish writer Franz Kaf­ka: He sits in a room full of friends and reads one of his ear­ly works aloud. At points he has to stop. He can’t car­ry on. He is laugh­ing too hard. Suf­fice to say, no one else is laughing. Replace those friends in the room with — oh, I don’t know, every­one in all his­to­ry — and that’s how, a lot of the time, one feels about Kafka’s sto­ries. They’re weird and freaky and fun­ny.