For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by the classic of American postmodernism, the author who, along with K. Vonnegut, J. Heller and T. Pynchon, stood at the origins of the tradition of “black humor”. "Any Third Thought" (the book's title refers to the words of the magician Prospero at the end of Shakespeare's "The Tempest") begins with a tornado that devastated the prosperous Maryland community of Heron Cove on the 77th anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. And, as if obeying the call of the elements, the writer George Newitt and the poetess Amanda Todd, professors of literature, set off on a journey from the American Stratford to the English Stratford on Avon, where on the steps of the Shakespeare House Museum a not so large-scale, but still a catastrophe happens to George - on his 77th birthday. As if these coincidences weren’t enough, what follows are several episodes labeled “vision/dream/freak/mind/glitch/whatever,” one for each season; in these visions, George remembers his childhood and youth friend Ned Prosper, with whom they shared many common hobbies, from literary to love...