Dec 31, 2021

Issue #40: 🎇 Happy New Hypercritic Year! 🥂

Dear Hypercritics, 🎆✨🍾🥂

With this 40th issue, we celebrate 2021 and welcome the New Year. 🎆

You will find below a list of books, comics, video games, albums, and artworks that we think can inspire you and your 2022. ✨

We’ll start with a special article written in collaboration with some Italian booksellers. 📚

➡️ Read Books to read in 2022 | Italian Booksellers give their tips to inspire the New Year

2022 is here. And to get the best start, here are the books recommended by Italian booksellers to inspire this new year. A 2022 to read!

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Watch Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

A movie about life or about death? 2020’s animated movie Soul by Disney Pixar can change the way you look at life, for the better.

www.hypercritic.org

Staying true to yourself, even in hard times

➡️ Play Disintegration | A journey of purification and reconstruction

Disintegration was The Cure’s first commercial peak and marked a return to the introspective Gothic rock style established in the early 1980s.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Play BTS's BE album | An honest message of perseverance

BTS’s Be album, released during the pandemic, shows how the band is not afraid of showing its inner conflicts sending a message of perseverance.

www.hypercritic.org

Beauty of life, from little things to the universe

➡️ Play The value of the little things in Stardew Valley

Concerned Ape’s 2016 Stardew Valley is an heartwarming game in pixel art that teaches the value of the little things in life.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Experience Arc de Triomphe Wrapped | The extraordinariness of the ordinary

The Arc de Triomphe Wrapped is Christo and Jeanne Claude’s epitaph and once again is set as a provocation for the spectators.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Read Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a short collection of essays on XX-century physics written by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli.

www.hypercritic.org

Challenges and choices

➡️ Read The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

The Road Not Taken was born as a poem to tease Frost’s friend Edward Thomas, but it has become a symbol of individualism and nonconformism.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Read The Eight Mountains | Peaks to climb in life

Winner of Strega Prize in 2017, Paolo Cognetti’s novel The Eight Mountains is a story about friends discovering everyone has a peak to climb.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Watch Ted Lasso | Being good is the new being bad

“Believe” says a hand-written and slightly crooked sign above the door of AFC coach Richmond, and it represents everything that is Ted Lasso.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Read Kobane Calling | Zerocalcare reports on a fight for an ideal

Melding graphic novel and travelogue, Kobane by Zerocalcare calling is humorous yet dramatic, entertaining yet informative.

www.hypercritic.org

Dreams and questions: that's life!

➡️ Read The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible

Published in 1997, The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago is a short, illustrated fable about a man following his dreams.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Read Could Have | Szymborska's philosophy of wonder

With a quick-paced catalog of circumstances, Szymborska’s Could Have expresses her vision of life and her philosophy of wonder.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Experience Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? | Gauguin’s pictorial testament

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? resumes the ideas of painter of the tropics, Paul Gauguin but also reflects his tragic quest.

www.hypercritic.org

Farewell 2021, Welcome 2022!🍾

➡️ Play 2014 Vienna New Year's Concert | Johann Strauss - Radetzky March

New Year’s Anthem. Ready to clap your hands? An exuberant Daniel Barenboim wreaks havoc during the performance, but the Wiener Philharmoniker proves it can play in any situation without blinking an eye. We wish you to be like the Wiener Philharmoniker in your life.

www.youtube.com

Hypercritic sends you all the best wishes for 2022: may this new year bring health, inspiration, change, achievements, new challenging paths, limits pushed further, and bring us closer to being more and more the people we want and choose to be.

Prosit!🥂

Did you enjoy this issue? Yes No