Boris: 660 books

Sarah Cohen doesn't mean to hurt anyone. But lately every decision this twenty-nine-year-old graphic artist makes ends in varying degrees of disaster. Fortunately for her, nursing home orderly Emerson McCann is just a phone call away, ready to help clean up the mess. Years after their brief college...

The exhilarating story of how London came to be one of the most exciting and influential places on earth—from the city’s colorful, witty, and well-known mayor. Once a swampland that the Romans could hardly be bothered to conquer, over the centuries London became an incomparably vibrant...

1877 год, Российская империя участвует в жесточайшей русско-турецкой войне. Юная девушка Варвара Суворова, петербургская красавица передовых взглядов и почти нигилистка,...

In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. “The Jack of Spades” is a civilized swindler who has conned thousands of rubles from Moscow’s residents–including...

In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe! Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intellectually...

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products....

Agent MON2985 wants his identity back; his brain-chip is deteriorating and he won't be issued another clone body. Not only that, but some damned kid's found a weak spot in the Control Matrix and is messing with the whole scheme of things. The hammer of the New World Order hovers ready to strike, but...

Prompted by a series of emails, a reporter begins to uncover the story of Isaac Feyer, a missionary from the nineteenth century. Aided by a chapter in Feyer’s journals, and a two century old letter written by him, the reporter finds himself in an unconventional part of history.A short story.

“Mad Men for the literary world.” —Junot Díaz Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twenty-five Nobel Prize winners and generation-defining authors like T. S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe,...

Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in his own words (in translation) and are discussed...

L'arte e l'architettura dell'Antico Egitto, la millenaria storia di questa civiltà e gli stessi geroglifici esercitano da sempre un fascino particolare. Dall'epoca romana all'Europa del Rinascimento, al periodo napoleonico, quando l'Egitto fornì allo stile Impero molte delle sue forme e dei suoi...

A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of arts complex relationship to power.

In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces...

Luglio 2017: Corto Maltese compie 50 anni. Boris Battaglia presenta il primo vero tentativo di sistemazione critica del personaggio più interessante e seminale del fumetto internazionale. Un saggio che ribalta tutti i luoghi comuni ormai affastellati su questa figura e che guarda alle storie di Pratt...