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Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meanin...
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-firs...
1922 год, Москва. Граф Александр Ростов попадает под трибунал за стихотворение, написанное, казалось бы, давным-давно. Однако наказание неизбежно, и графа отправляют в ссы...
"Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." ―The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and 2017 Critics' Pick
One of Barack Obama's...
Новая книга Элизабет Страут, как и ее знаменитая "Оливия Киттеридж", – роман о потерянном детстве. Каждая история в нем – напряженная драма, где в центре – мрачное прошлое...
One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017
“A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave ...
An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
In a city swollen by refugees but still most...
Джейнсвилл — городок, в котором находился старейший в Америке завод General Motors. 23 декабря 2008 года, за два дня до Рождества, он закрылся, и девять тысяч человек поте...
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in Americ...
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the t...
Что бы произошло с миром, если бы женщины вдруг стали физически сильнее мужчин? Теперь мужчины являются слабым полом. И все меняется: представления о гендере, силе, слабос...
Макс Тегмарк говорит о трёх основных этапах развития жизни на нашей планете. Жизнь 1.0, простая биологическая жизнь, свойственная, например, бактериям. Жизнь 2.0, или куль...
Die Flucht ist nur der Anfang Barbados, 1830: Der schwarze Sklavenjunge Washington Black schuftet auf einer Zuckerrohrplantage unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Bis er zum...
Литература и кино сформировали романтизированный образ индейцев, живущих в полной гармонии с природой. Но коренное население Америки – народ, который прошел трагический пу...
**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, hi...
Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes unde...
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and h...
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational ce...
Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction ...