TURIN. Beautiful writing, good reading: this remains the spirit of the weekly Mirrorwhich from Sunday the readers of the Pressof the 19th century and of Pavia Province they will find within the newspaper, with renewed and more streamlined graphics, and with the same desire to understand current affairs, society and contemporary trends. After one hundred and fifty supplement issues, Mirror it becomes to all intents and purposes an integral part of the newspaper, with the idea, proposed by the director Andrea Malaguti, of broadening its ideas and representing an overview of those topics that the pace of the news sometimes does not allow to cover.
What is the “sentiment” of the week? This is the question we try to ask ourselves every time we imagine a new issue: the inspiration can come from a book, from watching a series that is particularly controversial, from a news story that brings with it questions and dilemmas, often from chats informal with writers, authors, journalists, but also from letters that arrive in the editorial office or from conversations heard on the radio. Alongside the cover story, which will continue every week to try to intercept the sense of contemporaneity, Mirror wanted to create an affection for some more popular themes, such as reading the great detective stories of Gianluigi Nuzzi, reportages from Italy and the world, interviews with entertainment and cultural personalities, the successful “discoveries” section, in which tells the story of the second life of some of the characters who have most impressed themselves on the Italian imagination and the horoscope of Susanna Schimperna, who incidentally is a Scorpio.
From this issue you will also find some new columns, such as “Bad things” by Maria Laura Rodotà, a journalist whose eyes seem extremely precious to us in an era of disorientation and false news, “Fuori strada” by Gianluca Nicoletti, the greatest expert on disagreements and interrupted paths, “Futura” by Francesca Santolini, whose objective is to bring readers closer to the themes of environmentalism without them being assailed by feelings of guilt and ecoanxiety in the first two lines, “Fra la gente” by Stefano D’ Andrea, already author of the successful “Bar Stories” and patient listener of other people’s conversations. And then again there will be Michela Marzano, Simonetta Sciandivasci, Chiara Francini, Federico Taddia, Don Marco Pozza, the interview with Alain Elkann and the heartfelt post of Maria Corbi.
The issue that you will find on newsstands on Sunday will be dedicated to the theme of seduction, to how it has changed – in the era in which, as we often hear, “nothing can be said anymore” – and also to how it continues to remain a topic of discussion between men and women of all ages. We learn to be seductive when we are very young, when we open our eyes wide to soften the people who look after us and so as not to be left alone, and we continue when we grow up, in different forms, to experiment with the capacity for attraction, but also for power and control we have over others. And ultimately, we too Mirrorwhen we imagined opening this new season we wanted to make ourselves more seductive in the eyes of our readers (the graphics are by the excellent Nicolas Lozito).
We therefore change, to experiment with new forms of interpretation of the world, to align ourselves with an era that has become very fast, with times dedicated to reading that are increasingly short and intermittent, but also a little to try to impose a slower pace, in which reflection is not swallowed up by instantaneousness, and ultimately to remain somewhat equal to oneself.