Read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Marco Polo describes fifty-five cities to Kublai Khan, all of them Venice.

Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.

V-2 rockets, a lieutenant whose erections predict strikes and the end of the war; Pynchon's monster.

A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.

A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.

A wife's visions in Fellini's first colour film, made for Giulietta Masina.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

Benigni wanders a countryside listening to wells; Fellini's last film.