Everything that happens to us in the external environment (i.e., outside of us) is perhaps our illusion, and what happens inside us is our real life.

“What is prayer? This is a journey that has no end. And based on who understands it (the prayer), we can talk about where he is... Developing oneself to achi...

Where do people get their words? Rough and subtle. This is an interpretation of the Gospel of John, 1.1–5, as well as an explanation of what was seen.

Everything that is written here is just a convention, capable of somehow conveying in human language the knowledge that is acquired in contemplation.

Notebook eleven: 1956–1957. At the top

Barin Barsik is the pseudonym of Academician of Fine Literature Bars Sergeevich Sveklin, the author of many poetry books. This book is a collection of his se...

A young reader’s adaptation of whistleblower and bestselling author Edward Snowden’s memoir, Permanent Record—featuring a brand-new afterword that include...

The famous modern writer Mikhail Lifshits is interesting to those who open a book for the sake of artistic truth, who have not forgotten that reading is an a...

To rescue a kidnapped prostitute, Kemal Kayankaya must face some of Germany’s most depraved and dangerous criminals. Fortunately, some of them are his fri...

The book talks about methods of survival in extreme conditions: mountains, desert, taiga, etc. Written on the basis of numerous expeditions - the author in 1...

For about fifty years, St. Petersburg prose writer, playwright, screenwriter Semyon Laskin (1930–2005) kept a diary. Twenty-four notebooks contained a huge n...

The eighth issue of the series includes François Chabreuil’s story “Mat woke the rooster” and the novels by Michel Lebrun “Eleven Hours on a Corpse”, Jean Br...