2119 The astronauts, who set off on a flight a hundred years ago and returned home after the accident, get acquainted with the Earth of the future: food delivery lines, robot gardeners, pterocaras - thousands of amazing wonders, everyday for earthlings of the 22nd century. Will there be a place in this strange world for heroes who are late in time?

The best cure for blues and depression. Slava Se is the pseudonym of the Latvian author Vyacheslav Soldatenko, who writes in Russian. He is a psychologist by training and works as a plumber. He also plays the guitar, gives concerts in the theater and writes books... Thanks to his good sense of humor and the quality of his literature, his books are very popular.

A humorous bestseller in a convenient pocket format. Slava Se is a writer, screenwriter, playwright, who became famous for his humorous sketches on the Internet in the 2010s, released many collections and fell in love with thousands of fans. Each of his books is full of enchanting characters and comical situations , and all the embarrassments and adventures are written with ease and skill.

»Berlin Alexanderplatz« gehört neben dem »Ulysses« von James Joyce und »Manhattan Transfer« von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschienen, erzählt der Roman die bewegende Geschichte des Franz Biberkopf, der nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Gefängnis in einen Strudel aus Verrat und Verbrechen gerät. Darüber hinaus aber...

Wenn man Weihnachten mit Rainer Maria Rilke feiern kann, dann bekommt das Fest einen ganz besonderen Glanz. In seinen Gedichten, Gedanken, Erzählungen und Briefen entfaltet sich der Zauber der Weihnachtszeit auf ganz besondere Weise. Eine kleine Lektüre für den Advent, das Weihnachtsfest und besinnliche Winterstunden.

Leipzig in den Nachkriegswirren 1920. Kriminalinspektor Paul Stainer kehrt aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft zurück, das Grauen der Schützengräben noch in den Knochen. Ein aufsehenerregender Fall zwingt ihn allerdings, sich mit der Gegenwart zu befassen: In der Villa eines Fabrikanten werden mehrere Menschen erschossen. Alles sieht nach einem missglückten Einbruch aus. Doch eine verängstigte Zeugin...

She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.

In this issue: Vassili Grossman The Commissar, Leonid Latynin Stavr and Sarah, Nina Sadur Irons and Diamonds, Ludmila Ulitskaia March 1953, Barely Soup, Igor Pomerantsev Sobs in Corners, A Little About You, Yosip, Victor Beilis Breakfast Alfresco. Stories united under subtitle What It Means To Be A Jew In Russia: Lev Anninsky The Wandering Jew, Osip Mandelstam Mikhoels, Larissa Miller Home...

of several generations of an upper-class family during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia. Historical events, providing a background for the narrative, are depicted not directly but rather as seismic shock waves overturning and transforming the lives of ordinary people. Lala, Natasha, Toma - three heroines are close friends, all from formerly affluent families stripped of their...

In this issue: Larissa Miller HomoLudens, Childhood in Post-War Moscow, Papa Misha, St.Petersburg-Leningrad, Muzyka - Music, Flitting and Gliding, the Black Sea, Virgin Lands, My Romance with English, My Land and Home, In Lieu of Conclusion. Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow, with reminiscences of her mother, a major journalist under Stalin, and of her father...

In this issue: Vladimir Sorokin A Business Proposition, Four Stout Hearts, Igor Iarkevich How I Shit My Pants, How I Did Get Raped, Viktor Erofeev De Profundis, Cheekbones, a Nose and a Gully, Daniil Kharms A Letter and Other Pieces, Yuri Miloslavski Urban Sketches, Alexander Terekhov Charon, Buddy. An Ironic Diary, Serfei Iask Per Somnia. The issue is concluded with autobiographical...

In this issue: Alexander Genis Literary Nonfiction by A. Genis, The View from the Window, Red Bread, USA from A to Y, Brodsky in New York, Darkness and Silence: The Art of Subtraction. These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism - Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant...