Orliński pisze o Disneylandzie, którego – cytując Jeana Baudrillarda – „jawna nierzeczywistość ma odwrócić uwagę od skrywanej nierzeczywistości pobliskiego Los Angeles”, o Missisipi, gdzie dzieje się...
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Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
Amon. Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen
At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf — and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,”...
Автобиографический психологический роман «Атог» написан Анастасией Цветаевой (1894-1993), признанным мастером мемуарного жанра. Издание...
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза
An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In An Afghanistan Picture Show, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a...
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Here, for the first time is an intimate look into the childhood and intellectual development of the world’s most famous atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, “one of the most outstanding intelligences in modern science.”...
Биографии и мемуары, История
An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson
For almost two decades, through the War of 1812, James Wilkinson was the senior general in the United States Army. Amazingly, he was also Agent 13 in the Spanish secret service at a time when Spain's empire dominated North America. Wilkinson's...
An Englishman Looks at the...
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed...
For former hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, words are the most powerful weapon in the human arsenal. For good and for evil, as was the case in the spring of 1994 in Rwanda. Over 100 days, some 800,000 people were slaughtered, most hacked to death by...
Analogies in Physics and...