The novel by the famous English writer, medievalist historian Robert Irwin (b. 1946) tells the story of the fantastic adventures of a young spy who came unde...

Guy de Maupassant (full name Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant) is a French writer, essayist, author of short stories and novels, one of the great represen...

Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. He taught at Yale and Columbia Universities, and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He was a contributor...

Jack Kerouac gave a voice to a whole generation in literature; during his short life he managed to write about 20 books of prose and poetry and became the mo...

“Under the Drink” is the author’s translation of the American collection “On Booze” by Viktor Kogan, published in 2011. The New York publishing house New Dir...

Christopher Buckley once again turns to an environment that is familiar to him. And this time the focus of his attention is on the “great ones of this world....

Charles Bukowski is an iconic American writer of the 20th century, whose European popularity has always surpassed that of America (in Germany alone, the life...

Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is one of the most famous English writers, the author of many critical articles, poems and memoirs. Written in 1929, the novel "T...

Two young girls have been kidnapped and brutally murdered in Edinburgh and a third has gone missing. Among the many police officers hunting for the murderous...

The book by the outstanding American writer of the 20th century Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) includes works created in the late 60s: selected stories from th...

War for the Liberation of Algeria, 1959. Philippe Roussel, a French officer attracted by Marxist ideas, goes over to the side of the Algerian partisans and b...

In the Sultan's palace in the heart of the Ottoman Empire there is a Cage. Princes, the sons of the ruler, have lived in it since childhood. Orhan and his br...