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A lucid and erudite reflection on the relationship we establish with books. What criterion presupposes the ordering and arrangement of books? Written with exquisite erudition and a fascinating tendency to centrifugal order, How to order a library is an authentic lesson not only on...

Roberto Calasso explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived over three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, their likely hallucinogenic...

Myths, rites, constellations, poetry: Roberto Calasso travels through forms of communication between humans and "the invisible", and traces a journey through the future of European culture. This is the novel of things that seem far away and yet are among us, by the time...

With his unique perspective, Calasso recounts biblical stories such as those of the kings of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon, episodes such as that of the Queen of Sheba or the flight to Egypt, and the role of Moses and Freud's interpretation of his...

Roberto Calasso dives deeply into Kafka’s work to discover why K. and Josef K.–the protagonists of The Castle and The Trial–are so radically different from any other character in the history of novels, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calasso’s lifelong...

Why does a form of terrorism that consists of isolated, random killings break out, where the victims can be as numerous as possible? In the first part of this book, Calasso gives a brief history of the origin of Islamic terrorism, and draws an...

How Zeus kidnapped Princess Europe; Theseus abandoned Ariadne; Dionysus raped Aura; Fedra went crazy for Hippolytus; Zeus decided to exterminate the heroes... Cadmo and Harmony's wedding was the last time that the gods of Olympus sat at the table... What happened forms the immense...