Ivan Beletsky - about the book “The History of Death. How we fight and accept " The book of anthropologist Sergei Mokhov “The History of Death. How we fight and accept ”I got into the short list of the Enlightener-2021 award, which was quite expected: immediately after the release, it gained considerable popularity, as well as its previous book, entitled“ Birth and Death of the funeral industry ”.

Fragment of the "Books of the Samurai" Yukio Misima In the "ABC-Atticus" is preparing for the output "Book of the Samurai". This is a collection of thoughts of Yukio Misima regarding the content of Hagakure - the famous treatise on the Busido Code of Honor, a significant part of which is devoted to the perception of death and attitude towards it.

What to ask in book Thomas Mann in the country of Soviets, the ideal “court” through the eyes of the humanist Baldassar Castillo, the exposure of lies of Charles (sic!) Dookins, a fascinating story of the Mayan's writing deciphering and the biography of Dovlatov, from which I want to turn into Dovlatov. Read about these new products in our column "Book of the Week". Alexey Baskakov. “I'm not a fellow traveler ...”: Thomas Mann and the Soviet Union. M.; SPb.: Nestor-History, 2021.

About the novel by the al-name of the "Pearl of the East" In June 2001, the Ellison storm hit the lives of dozens of people. One of the victims of the element was the al-nasvili himself, an Iraqi journalist and writer. Shortly before that, he managed to receive the status of a political refugee in the United States and write the novel “The Pearl of the East”, whose main character was the dwarf, sitting in prison at the regime of Saddam Hussein.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" A previously unknown short story by Tennessee Williams, “A Woman for the Summer,” was first published in the latest issue of The Strand Magazine, The Guardian reports . The text of the story, written in 1952 in Rome, was found in Williams' archives at Harvard's Houghton Library. For what reason the writer never published it is unknown.