Most people, when asked what they are most afraid of, answer: “I’m not afraid of anything.” This answer is not true, since every person at one time or anothe...

Ross King is the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper and Enchanting Madness. Claude Monet and the Water Lilies. His next book is a fa...

One of the key figures in 20th-century art, Paul Cézanne became a legend during his lifetime. His biography is overgrown with myths, and his work is surround...

The collection "Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Empire and Nationalism" includes texts written by authoritative modern sociologists, historians and ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous American poet, prose writer, critic, and journalist. A man of dazzling talent and sad fate. Haters and admirers, imitators and fo...

Ancient Rus' still remains an “unknown continent” for us. Information about the events that took place at that time is sometimes mysterious and contradictory...

The book presents, on a scientific basis, the possibilities of using coffee not only as a tasty and aromatic drink. But also for the treatment and prevention...

Hofmannsthal is an almost forgotten name for the Russian ear and eye. But at the beginning of the century it was not so - then it flashed on poster stands an...

Alfred Barr (1902–1981), founder and first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), managed to curb the natural disaster that was twentieth-c...

Unknown adventures of famous espionage aces, new names of major spies (such as the famous writer Somerset Maugham), original versions of secret operations (f...

The fourth volume of the Collected Works of G. Grass includes the stories “Meeting in Telgte” and “The Cry of the Fireball,” the essay “Head-Born,” stories, ...