Rowan Williams is the former Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the most celebrated intellectual and spiritual thinkers in the United Kingdom. Currently the Master of Ma...
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Recommended by Richard Ayoade: a reading list
Lee Lee18 книг
Lee LeeRecommended by Richard Ayoade: a reading list
«Истории обитателей холмов» — это долгожданное продолжение любимой книги нескольких поколений. Книги, выросшей из историй, которые любящий отец Ричард Адамс рассказывал св...
Building Stories
В маленьком городке Мидлмарч происходят большие события. Умная, образованная Доротея Кейсобон, без любви вышедшая за пожилого ученого богослова, все больше разочаровываетс...
George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troub...
Роман Д. Д. Сэлинджера написан ярким выразительным языком и полон язвительного юмора, что ставит его в один ряд с произведениями М. Твена и Р. Ларднера. Впечатлительный по...
`To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language' Ben Schott
`There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks onese...
With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Spike Milligan revolutionized British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches f...
Франсуа Трюффо (1932 - 1984) - известный французский кинорежиссер, сыгравший значительную роль в киноведении. В молодости - кинокритик, в более зрелые годы - автор многочи...
A national bestselling collection of comedian Jack Handey’s “Deep Thoughts”—short, funny observations on life that were shown in between sketches on Saturday Night Live.
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait ...
An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, this work takes us to the places and the faces that...
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and ...
“Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as ...
Perhaps not the seminal work which is "The Waste Land", nevertheless Prufrock is one of the key poems of the early 20th Century. I remember fondly first encountering this ...