About Patrick Bixby's book "Passport: A Cultural History from Antiquity to the Present" Patrick Bixby. Passport: cultural history from antiquity to the present day. M.: Livebook, 2025. Translation from English by D. Ivanovskaya. Content . Fragment The "bare life" of a talking body In the fall of 1976, Pharaoh Ramesses II made a five-hour flight from Cairo to France.

About the book by Gabriele Pedulla “Niccolò Machiavelli. To gain power, not to gain glory" There are countless brief introductions to the work of Niccolo Machiavelli - from purely academic ones to self-help on the topic of how to conquer the whole world while working as an office manager. Often, such manuals present directly opposite concepts, and the ideas of the author of “The Prince” are interpreted this way and that.

About “The Secret Passage” by Lev Rubinstein “Secret Passage” is a posthumous book of poems and memoirs by Lev Semenovich Rubinstein, published by the “24” project. Eduard Lukoyanov shares his thoughts on this simultaneously typical and atypical collection of texts by an outstanding conceptualist with Gorky readers. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarity, violence and lies.

From a book about the Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in 1954 The Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers is little known compared to the First, which is generally considered the triumph of Stalinist aesthetics. Nevertheless, without it it is difficult to understand what the thaw was. Valery Vyugin did a lot of archival work, reconstructing the context and events of the congress.