When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of...

This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building’s residents to the basement increases, the neighbor children block out reality with the toys at hand—some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionably improvised. Maša Kolanovic’s Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of...

Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, ‘one of the great characters of 20th century literature’ (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he...

In Intent to Destroy, political scientist Eugene Finkel uncovers these deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukraine is a key borderland between Russia and the West, and, following the rise of Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, dominating Ukraine became the cornerstone of Russian policy. Russia has long used genocidal tactics—killings, deportations, starvation, and cultural...

The Castle's original manuscript was left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the ‘Wagner Group’ faded back into shadow, only to reemerge in the Middle East, where they'd go toe-to-toe with the U.S., and in Africa, where they'd earn praise for ‘tough measures’ against insurgencies yet spark outrage for looting,...

Have you ever heard scary stories about what you can see and hear when you find yourself in some distant, godforsaken Russian village? Before you is a collection of mystical village legends, painstakingly collected by a laboratory that chose the eloquent name 'Baba Nyura'. For several years, the project curator has been researching one of the most mysterious areas of the Leningrad Region -...

Deep in the Pacific Ocean sits Point Nemo: the spaceship graveyard. But it’s not only ships that sit at these dark depths. There’s a structure never made by human hands. And that structure seems to be…waking up. The crew of the experimental submarine Andromeda have been chosen to investigate this mystery. But they aren’t the only ones pursuing it. The master pirate Black Manta is on the...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, 'The Hunger Games,' a fight to the death on live TV.

Für Eingeweihte ein unvergessener Genuss, und für Neuentdecker ein wahrer Schatz unverfälschter Hausmannskost: Schmorwurst mit Salzkartoffeln, Stukkartoffel, Pommersches Gänseklein und Hefeklößchen sind nur vier Beispiele aus diesem wunderbaren Buch. Hannelore Doll-Hegedo serviert in diesem Buch die besten Rezepte aus Pommern, erzählt kleine Geschichten rund ums Essen und gibt auch so manches...

Die besten Rezepte aus der schlesischen Küchentradition: Galuschel (das sind Pfifferlinge) mit Semmelklößel, Schlesisches Himmelreich, Linsen mit Backpflaumen, Mohn-Kließle (die berühmten Mohnklöße) und der bekannte Sträselkuche stehen hier nur stellvertretend für die Vielzahl der Rezepte in diesem Buch. Die kleinen Geschichten, zum Teil in schlesischer Mundart, und die vielen Fotos der Region...