The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life
“Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work—a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting...
In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts...
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Mention Switzerland and people typically think of the Alps, Heidi, cheese, yodeling, chocolate and St. Bernards. Yet, this relatively small country 15,941 square miles (41,290 square km) of land and inland water offers much more than...
t would be too easy to say Vidal's second memoir picks up where Palimpsest left off; as in that earlier book, he essentially lets his memories flow at will, often revisiting yet again the stories of his Washington childhood. The general focus,...