Judy Moody is Monday-morning mopey. Another week in her same-old seat at her same-old desk in her same-old school. Even worse, there aren’t any days off from school for ages. But when she steps into Class 3T, Judy’s Monday frown turns upside down. Pop! Pop! Pop-pop-pop! Mr. Todd is making Monday special by celebrating Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (no lie)! This gives Judy an idea that...

The Middle Ages are so far from us that, when we hear the mention of this period of time, we continue to paint in our heads the picture that we once saw in several bad films. But were the Middle Ages really that terrible? Historian Stefania Demchuk claims that no, the Middle Ages were neither dark nor wild. In her book, the author tells how everything really happened: what people ate and...

In Serhiy Zhadan's book, readers will find poems written over many years, directly or indirectly related to the railway. Here, the station square comes to dreams, people who look like snails sleep at stations and carry their own homes on their shoulders, soldiers go to the East to defend the country and return to their families. To the soft clatter of wheels and late horns, passengers count...

Language is not just a collection of words stored in dictionaries, nor an arbitrary set of meanings. Language is a way of thinking and a reflection of reality, it is a picture of the world that our distant ancestors began to draw and our distant descendants will continue to complete. We also take a direct part in its creation, constantly supplementing and improving the background and plot....

In its simplest form, Valerian Pidmohylny’s novel 'The City' is the story of an ambitious young man who moves from the village to Kyiv and builds a new life there. He is often compared to the hero of Maupassant’s 'A Dear Friend' and the self-confident and unscrupulous conquerors of social heights from Balzac’s stories. However, for Pidmohylny, it is not just a career story. He places the...

In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.