The book by Norwegian journalist S. Slapgaard tells about the life and work of Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), an outstanding Norwegian writer and human rights ac...

Michael Bruce Sterling (born 1954) is an American science fiction writer, journalist, and literary critic. One of the popular authors writing in the cyberpun...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was an English writer and poet of Scottish origin. Author of world-famous adventure novels and stories, the largest repres...

A blind tramp nicknamed Stone spent his entire adult life in the slums, ate whatever he could find and slept wherever he could. Quite unexpectedly, he receiv...

“There is no need to talk about the significance of the memories of Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, née Taneyeva: it is self-evident. Of all the outsiders, A. A....

Cordwainer Smith is one of the four pseudonyms of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913–1966), a man of many talents who was born, as they say, with a golden s...

We have a lot to learn from animals: for example, the ability to rest. We humans have lost this ability, says Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the greatest Buddhist t...

In the second book, the main character, Lin, will have to save herself, and not only, from forced confinement in the New City. How to save yourself and not g...

God of spiders Anansi. A character from cute children's fairy tales? One of the most mysterious rulers of Voodoo! He is obeyed by the wealth-bearing crosses ...

Lawyer Francis Pettigrew is called to serve in the clerical office. But you won’t have to die of boredom! In their spare time, employees amuse themselves by ...

Théophile Gautier is the greatest romanticist of France in the 19th century. Generously using historical and literary plots, as well as the possibilities of ...

Leggie Sterlitz meets in Helsinki with Bulat Khokhlov, a former KGB officer who now represents the Russian mafia. They are going to open an offshore bank on ...