Сэмюэл Беккет (1906–1989) – один из самых известных представителей авангардной литературы двадцатого века, лауреат Нобелевской премии 1969 года. По насыщенности слова его сравнивают с Джойсом, а по...
Текст рассказа воспроизведен по публикации в журнале «Новый мир» № 5 за 1980 год.Юный герой этого рассказа, застенчивый и неловкий студент Юрий Васильев, попадает в руки энергичного психолога,...
Семь повестей Сергея Антонова, объединенных в сборнике, — «Лена», «Поддубенские частушки», «Дело было в Пенькове», «Тетя Луша», «Аленка», «Петрович» и «Разорванный рубль», — представляют собой как бы...
Опубликованный здесь текст — вторая из пяти "Cказок пещерных людей". Полностью "Сказки…", а также роман «Инвазия» можно будет прочесть, подписавшись на мою книгу. Книга будет издана на средства...
Роман о недвижимости. Что труднее сдвинуть — камень или собственные представления о себе и своей жизни?
In the world of fiction reviewing, extraordinary is an over-used word. Yet there really is no other way to describe Chinese author Xinran's second book, Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many...
At once a sensual and irresistible mystery and a haunting work of psychological insight and emotional depth, The Whole World marks the beginning of a brilliant literary career for Emily Winslow, a...
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A...
All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark, a driven, cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s. The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a...
Honest and entertaining, Columbia University professor Venkatesh vividly recounts his seven years following and befriending a Chicago crack-dealing gang in a fascinating look into the complex world...
One day, during a family seaside holiday, something which has already begun to fray quietly snaps. Delia simply walks off the beach, away from her husband, Sam, and her three almost grown-up...
A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality, lie at the...
The most notable story is again an investigation into the gulf between the sexes. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" won both the Hugo (in a tie with Spider Robinson's "By Any Other Name") and Nebula...
The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia-and how does a human girl become the wind? The...
Fat Phil can’t believe his luck at dice, but when his friends turn nasty, he pleads with fate to let him lose; a salesman psychs himself up with encouraging messages from fortune cookies, until the...
‘Honestly and intelligently written… offers lessons to those who choose to heed it on the folly of trying to make simple diagnoses or to apply simple remedies in Afghanistan’ Isabel Hilton, Daily...
