Ведущий культуролог Владимир Паперный, автор книги «Культура Два», и Майя Туровская, известный кинокритик и соавтор сценария документального фильма «Обыкновенный фашизм», в 2008 году создали совместный проект, посвященный сравнительному анализу советского и американского кино 1930–1940 х годов ХX века. После смерти Туровской в 2019 году Паперный продолжил исследование, расширив его...

A gripping and incredibly funny autofiction about how people don't hear each other. – A young writer works in a shop selling absurdly expensive designer candles in New York City and can't help her customers. – New York 2019–2021: capitalism and survival on the other side of the globe.

Includes: Tsinkovye mal'chiki, Vremia sekond hend, U voiny ne zhenskoe litso, Poslednie svideteli, Chernobylskaia molitva

Alyosha is a first-grader, the smallest in his class. Because of his height, he's teased with the silly nickname 'Two-Portfolio.' Kysh is a funny puppy with a very strange name. They're both on probation: the boy at school, and the dog at home. They try their best, but somehow, it always turns out badly! Alyosha will disrupt school, Kysh will misbehave at home, or they'll get into trouble...

Alyosha is a first-grader, the smallest in his class. Because of his height, he's teased with the silly nickname 'Two-Portfolio.' Kysh is a funny puppy with a very strange name. They're both on probation: the boy at school, and the dog at home. They try their best, but somehow, it always turns out badly! Alyosha will disrupt school, Kysh will misbehave at home, or they'll get into trouble...

Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running...

Isadora Moon loves sunshine — and nighttime. She loves her magic wand — and her black tutu. She loves spooky bats — and Pink Rabbit. Isadora is half-fairy, half-vampire, and she’s special because she is different! Now Isadora’s parents want her to start school, but she’s not sure where she belongs — fairy school or vampire school?

Camping is full of surprises when you're a vampire-fairy! When Isadora Moon and her family go on a camping trip to the beach, they’re just like everybody else. They roast marshmallows and build sand castles and sleep in a tent! But in a magical family, anything can happen. And when Isadora goes on a nighttime adventure, she makes an unusual friend under the sea. . . .

The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future...

Twenty years have passed since Maxim Kammerer's mission on the planet Saraksh. He now works on Earth, at COMCON-2. His latest assignment is to locate the progressor Lev Abalkin, who left Saraksh without permission but ignored the requirement to register on Earth. Kammerer's encounters with Abalkin's acquaintances uncover a secret that could cause serious harm not only to those around him, but...

У этой книги четыре анонимных автора. Но их — волонтеров, живущих в России, которые вывозили и продолжают вывозить мирных жителей Украины из-под бомбежек, — гораздо больше. Все эти годы, что идет война, они действуют: встречают на пропускных пунктах между Россией и Украиной, привозят в безопасные теплые квартиры, где можно выдохнуть, обеспечивают чемоданами, едой и одеждой, а потом провожают...

В один февральский день в каждом доме появляется слон. Огромный. Молчаливый. Непрошеный. Никто не знает, откуда он взялся и зачем пришел. Одни делают вид, что ничего не происходит, другие пытаются разобраться, третьи — пишут об этом в комментариях. Новый роман Саши Филипенко — о страхе и смелости, о любви и отстраненности, о людях, которые столкнулись с тем, что больше их самих, — и...