Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Top 10s
Top 10 books about SicilyFar from the outdated stereotype of mafia domination, these works reveal an island of great variety and rich culture
Books that made me
Edmund de Waal: ‘If I need to forget everything, I read Lee Child. Honestly’The artist, potter and author on his middle-of-the-night anxiety reading, wanting to be a poet, and the Japanese classic he wishes he had read
Top 10s
Top 10 books about EuropeFrom Homer to Camus by way of Brecht, French author Laurent Gaudé picks the books that tell us something important about the continent today
On my radar
On my radar: Iwona Blazwick’s cultural highlightsThe Whitechapel Gallery director on her Fargo addiction, the best music venue in the California desert and JW Anderson’s fusion of sculpture and couture
Readers suggest the 10 best …
Readers suggest the 10 best quotable novelsLast week we brought you our 10 best quotable novels. Here, we present your thoughts on the books that should have made the list
Books blog
Readers' panel: experiences of books in prisonFrom Othello to Oscar Wilde - four readers explain why books mean so much to people in jail, and name the books that helped them to survive it
Unpicking the past masters: what makes a 'historical novel'?
Stuart Kelly: The genre is 'not exactly jammed with greatness', according to one critic. Not true, there are tales that are truly great
Top 10s
Andrew Miller's top 10 historical novelsFrom Rosemary Sutcliff to Hilary Mantel, the novelist chooses his favourite books drawing on history's 'rattle-bag of wonderful stories'
Letters From London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – review
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's shrewd and witty travel dispatches are a complete joy, writes Stephen Smith
Letters from the man who wrote The Leopard
Giuseppe di Lampedusa's masterpiece The Leopard was rejected twice and published only after the author's death. What did he do with his life? Julian Barnes finds clues in the reticent Sicilian's letters from abroad
On the trail of the Leopard
Lampedusa's literary evocation of Sicilian life is 50 years old. Childhood fan Tom Templeton finds the island never quite changed its spots
Philip French's DVD club
The LeopardWriter-director Visconti's screen version of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo is that rare thing, a great novel turned into a great film. Combining the epic and the intimate, relating private lives to public events, this is a masterly account of the Risorgimento as experienced by an aristocratic Sicilian family and their circle in the 1860s.
A place in the sun
Lampedusa's The Leopard chronicles the struggle of the Sicilian aristocracy to survive in the face of social change. It is an enduring myth, says Jonathan Jones
