The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the...
From “one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” (The New York Times) , intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and “the war on terror.”
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily...
For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman.
Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on...
Hi! Here's a book that answers all your questions about skin problems, hair, makeup, dating, figure, clothes, career, diet, pocket money, personality... and gives a lot of other tips that are going to make a more glamorous and a more popular you. It...
Автор
Борис Парамонов
bparamon@gmail.com
Сотрудничает с РС с 1986 года. Редактор и ведущий программы "Русские вопросы" в Нью-Йорке.
Родился в 1937 г. в...
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces'. 'Aftermath' chronicles this perilous...
Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects-literature, art, popular culture, autobiography-by a renowned young American novelist.
In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical...
A profound and moving piece of investigative journalism, Jack London’s study of the London underworld remains, a century after it was written, a timely tale of poverty and injustice. In 1902, Jack London purchased some second-hand clothes, rented...