The book contains the columns published by the author in English newspaper The Guardian and translated by Ann Goldstein.

I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly – maybe only – about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking.

[7] In another column, she discussed the politics of her country, in a rare change of topic, to speak against Matteo Salvini's Lega Nord.

She claims that the party represents a true danger to democracy due to its racist rhetoric, and she claims that Salvini "has become increasingly persuasive, giving the appearance of a good-natured common man who thoroughly understands the problems of the common people and at the right moment bangs his xenophobic and racist fists on the table.

"[10] Stiliana Milkova has added: "Like Frantumaglia, Incidental Inventions provides insight into the writer's world and partakes in the construction of her authorial identity".