Rudyard Kipling's literary reputation is as controversial as his personality. On the one hand, he is the “bard of British imperialism,” a glorifier of wars a...

The book, which, along with The Maltese Falcon, is considered a canonical example of the English-language “black novel” - a genre that in some ways precedes ...

The collection, for the first time in Russian, presents the richness and diversity of English “spoken thought” over the time space of five centuries - though...

In the traditional section “Literary Guide” - “Half a century without Evelyn Waugh” - a selection of diaries, articles, memoirs of the great author of “Bride...

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) has long become a symbolic figure of English and world culture. An unsurpassed comedian, a master of brilliant paradoxes, a fan of fi...

In “National Prejudice” the Russian reader will read, for the first time, all the most interesting and significant that has been written in English non-ficti...

The February issue of IL opens with the diaries of the classic 20th century English literature Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966). “Vaugh begins to keep a diary,” tran...

Story from the magazine “Foreign Literature” No. 7, 1995

The hero of this book was the most widely read and one of the most successful English writers of the 20th century. Despite the fact that he led a completely ...

The publication introduces readers to the work of one of the leading masters of American crime fiction, Stanley Ellin. Not fitting into the traditional detec...