«В общем, Маша Слоним. Что про нее ни сообщи, всё меньше того, что она есть» (поэт Анатолий Найман). Внучка наркома иностранных дел и посла СССР в США Максима Литвинова, дочь скульптора Ильи Слонима, легендарная красавица Москвы 70-х, конфидентка Иосифа Бродского, вдова английского лорда — такому человеку есть что рассказать! И это только факты из ее личной и семейной истории. А есть еще...

József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go left, his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the ‘lucky’ ones, he was sent to the right, which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the ‘Cold Crematorium’-the so-called...

The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin’s ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: ‘I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common...