Vasily Legeido - on Iain Banks' misunderstood anti-war manifesto In 1984, long before English-speaking audiences knew the names of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk, 30-year-old Scot Iain Banks published a novel that outraged one half of the readership, delighted the other, and shocked everyone without exception.

From the book by Igor Kurukin and Philip Taratorkin “A Brilliant Century. Courtyard of the Empire" The book by historians Igor Kurukin and Philip Taratorkin is dedicated to the court of the Russian emperors of the 18th century - a special universe where balls and magnificent ceremonies coexisted with the inevitable intrigues and struggle for power. We are publishing an excerpt about the luxurious life of the court of Catherine II, which was famous for its splendor throughout Europe.

About Natalia Ilishkina’s novel “Mire” Natalia Ilishkina's new novel, which talks about the deportation of Soviet Koreans to Central Asia in 1937, tells about more than the tragedy of a single people in the territory of the former USSR.