In the “NB” section - “Three Monologues” by the Italian Claudio Magris (1939), in recent years, as stated in the introduction by the translator of the monolo...
“Translation competition”. This time the column is dedicated to the Polish poetess, Nobel Prize winner (1996) Wislawa Szymborska (1923–2012). In the introduc...
Together with my friend, trying to find an explanation for the story of the General, whose batman was a dog, I rush around the melting heat of Leningrad. Wit...
This volume includes famous novels and stories by the classic American detective from the most popular series by R. Stout, whose heroes are private detective...
Since 1965, de Villiers wrote spy novels, which brought him wide fame. He is the author of the spy series "SAS" (Son Altesse Serenissime - "His Serene Highne...
Valery Ronshin is a famous contemporary children's writer from St. Petersburg, one of the best writers in the genre of “children's horror stories.” There are...
Recently, the proverb “don’t swear off prison or scrip” has become especially relevant. Today, anyone can end up behind bars: a bandit, an oligarch, or an or...
They have repeatedly tried to explain the disaster of 1941 in “boxing” terms - they say, having missed a crushing blow, the Red Army found itself in a deep K...
A Madrid schoolgirl named Nina, having learned about the mysterious death of her grandfather, a magician and alchemist, comes to Venice and becomes his heir....
He is forced to live under someone else's name, unable to exercise his rights given to him from birth. And he continues his studies at the magical gymnasium,...
The legacy of the Order of the Hyperboreans haunts the most powerful organization in the West - the Papal Inquisition. The centuries-long struggle seemed to ...
Alexander Blok, in a review of another book about the life and work of M. Yu. Lermontov, as if sympathizing with modern and future biographers, complained: “...
