Boris: 660 books

“Destroy the Enemy in Hand-to-Hand Combat” was the official Red Army close combat manual during the Second World War. It was published in 1941, shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. This would have been the very manual used to train the troops that fought -- and defeated...

Mission for the Universe The machine arrived from far away, really far away, somewhere at the end of the omnidirectional and endless abyss of outer space. How can one fathom where and when it left? On a human scale, the distance it had traveled was almost infinite, its speed was almost unlimited,...

These are the ends of the world; we are at them, they are at our throats. Whether or not we choose to shout ourselves awake from these nightmares is up to us. Claudia's bit into something that has bitten her back. Like the crawling insect she is, she will try to flee the bright light shined...

This is the second of my collections of chapbooks. It is 'poetry' - whatever that means. The same warning that went into the first collection also applies to this book: some of it will hurt you in places that you can't reach. Not very much of it is rhymed or metered.

These are the ends of the world; we are at them, they are at our throats. Whether or not we choose to shout ourselves awake from these nightmares is up to us. Tod Donavon (59), Las Madres Police Department, has detected something horribly wrong with his ex-wife, and it just might have something...

Beware—you might get what you thought you wanted. Elena's a faceless 20-something trying their best to survive in a hostile environment full of predators. They'll find out the environment itself is trying to survive them. When nothing is certain and it looks most like all hope is lost... That's...

This is poetry. Some of it will hurt you in deep, hard-to-reach places. Caveat Emptor. (from the back cover) Welcome to my little book of stupid written curses: Certainly you'll find no worth in any of its verses You thought that there were 'cullings' here, & maybe...

Alex's story: a weekend in the life of a Las Madres hipster and his best friend Jamie, as they get into trouble with a stolen car, a bottle of tequila, a broken tattoo-gun, and the psycho ex-girlfriend. No good deed goes unpunished, and Alex won't get away without paying his pound of flesh. THIS IS...

There are no secrets. Everything leaks. And in the end, there’s no place you can hide from what you’ve done. General Maquino wanted to end civilization and rebuild it in his image. His plan required recruiting the best and brightest and promising them a place in the new world. The smartest of...

This is poetry, a collection of four chapbooks written over the span of twenty years. It is not nice. Some of it will hurt you in deep places that you cannot reach. You have been warned. -- I should probably also mention that only about a third of the material is the rhyming, metered stuff.

Something's tearing Scott's mind apart, eating him from the inside out, remaking him into something else. He can't stop it - he doesn't want to. He couldn't want to, even if he'd been able to think about it. Scott can't take part in his transformation because he's already dead, and has been throughout...

B.-A. Spasov nous offre à travers cet essai accessible à tous, une approche, une compréhension !Sa compréhension du conflit yougoslave qui a secoué l’Europe, mais aussi un court voyage dans un autre monde si proche où la rencontre d’une histoire tourmentée avec des identités si marquées...

Der dritte und finale Band "Wenn es aufklart" der von Christine Fischer edierten Werkausgabe zeigt Boris Pasternak in seinen verzweifeltsten Stunden: Stalinismus, politische Verfolgung und der Tod seiner Seelenverwandten Ossip Mandelstam und Marina Zwetajewa führen zu Rückzug und Isolierung....

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture...