Feltrinelli

Feltrinelli is a cultural conversation archive where books become public arguments. The format is simple, but the range is broad. Episodes gather people around new publications, often in front of an audience, and let the talk carry its own pace. The show is strongest when a literary premise opens into lived history. In the conversation on Lea Ypi’s Libera, the book becomes a way to think about Albania, the post-communist period, collapsing institutions, family memory, and the need for a politics larger than fear. Umberto Galimberti’s episode on civil unions, marriage, fidelity, and surrogacy is more confrontational, using social controversy to ask what law, love, parenthood, and capitalism reveal about Italian public life. Eugenio Borgna’s lesson on suffering and the soul moves in a quieter register. It circles time, Agostino, Leopardi, poetic language, silence, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and the fragile inner experiences that resist easy definition. Feltrinelli can also become briskly comic. Francesca Fiore and Sara Malnerich turn maternal exhaustion, self-improvement culture, sport, guilt, and shared domestic labor into a pointed public performance about care and impossible expectations. The poetry episode with Jovanotti, Nicola Crocetti, and Valeria Parrella takes a different path again, treating translation, rhyme, exact words, summer reading, and discovery as serious pleasures. Vanessa Nakate’s appearance brings climate justice to the foreground, especially the voices of Africa, Uganda, and communities already facing drought, hunger, water scarcity, and disproportionate risk. Across these episodes, the show keeps the feel of a literary event rather than a polished studio product. Questions become theses, theses become anecdotes, and anecdotes return as arguments about how people live together. It is intellectually serious without becoming sealed off from everyday speech. Listeners hear the coughs, pivots, gratitude, friction, and momentum of live exchange. The appeal is not speed or neatness. It is the sense that a book can still convene a room, sharpen disagreement, and keep public thought awake.