About Lawrence Hirst's book "The Imperfect Man" The book by British evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hirst, “The Imperfect Man,” both meets and does not meet readers’ expectations. On the one hand, it is deeper and more professional than one might expect, given that this is a translated scientific book.

About “Madonna of the Orient Express” and its author Maurice Decobras While The Great Gatsby was awaiting recognition, readers around the world were devouring Maurice Decobre's Madonna of the Orient Express, a novel about emancipated aristocrats, luxurious travel and Bolshevik intrigue. In the young Soviet Union, the book was banned. Why did one writer become a classic, while another almost disappeared from literary memory - and why is his novel interesting today?

An excerpt from Boris Gorelik’s book “Osip Runich - the silent king of the vanished cinema kingdom” Osip Runich (1889–1947) was called the “Russian Rudolf Valentino” and was considered one of the main actors of early Russian cinema, along with Ivan Mozzhukhin. He was the last on-screen partner of Vera Kholodnaya and one of the kings of this silent kingdom.