The collection “Polish Corpses” includes stories by 15 authors representing a wide variety of literary traditions and movements. It is opened by the famous d...

What wild cats, big and small, do you know? After reading the book by A.V. Tikhonov’s “Wild and Domestic Cats” you will probably get acquainted with some tha...

The collection “Not Later Than Midnight” by the English writer Daphne Du Maurier, first published in 1971, includes five short stories, five amazing, complet...

A stalker nicknamed Flask witnesses a strange relationship between the former Dolgovtsy. All four once participated in a raid on Pripyat, but something happe...

One of the most amazing and beautiful wave phenomena is the formation of solitary waves, or solitons, propagating in the form of pulses of constant shape and...

“Translation competition”. This time the column is dedicated to the Polish poetess, Nobel Prize winner (1996) Wislawa Szymborska (1923–2012). In the introduc...

Olga Tokarczuk is a “star” of modern Polish literature. Russian readers are more familiar with her novels, but she is also a wonderful storyteller. The colle...

Everyone has long known and loved the wonderful works of the writer Vera Chaplina. There is no need to imagine her stories about animals and zoo inhabitants:...

For the first time, the book of Russian general A.D. Nechvolodov “Nicholas II and the Jews” is published in Russian. The author, a prominent Russian intellig...

An unexpected business trip to Sicily turned out to be not only an exciting journey and changed ideas about the character of its inhabitants, but also became...

In a small, inconspicuous shop, a small, inconspicuous person works as a salesperson. He is banal, ordinary and gray. But he has a secret, perhaps terrible, ...

Tadeusz Ruzewicz is a special phenomenon in modern Polish literature, its pride and glory. Almost every one of his works, regardless of genre, combines thing...