Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also...
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Публицистика, Путешествия и география
Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia [aka Couchsurfing in Russia]
“Journalist Orth delivers a jaunty description of his travels… [that] armchair travelers will enjoy.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Funny, insightful, and mind-bendingly entertaining. Stephan Orth is a fearless and fabulous tour guide to...
Встречи с произведениями подлинного искусства никогда не бывают скоропроходящими: все, что написано настоящим художником, приковывает...
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages—with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi...
Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Some of the pieces include "Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black...
Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism.
Whether it's commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how wrestling a hotel minibar into a bathtub is the best way to stick it to The Man, Ugresic writes with...
The Case Against Wagner was one Nietzsche’s last books, and his wittiest. In Wagner’s music, in his doctrine, in his whole concept of art, Nietzsche saw the confirmation, the promotion, even the encouragement, of that decadence and degeneration...
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Публицистика, Самосовершенствование
Мясо — для слабаков [Практическое руководство для чуваков, которые хотят обрести хорошую форму, чтобы надирать задницы и рвать всех, как тузик грелку]
Если заглавие вас не шокирует, то это обязательно сделают факты, которые излагает Джон Джозеф! Именно он и другие ребята с нью-йоркской...
Борис Парамонов
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Сотрудничает с РС с 1986 года. Редактор и ведущий программы "Русские вопросы" в Нью-Йорке.
Родился в 1937 г. в...
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs...