Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

Cinema · Books · People · Ethnography

I learned that I have an enormous family: the path and the little wood, and in the field every ear of corn!

Я узнал, что у меня Есть огромная семья: И тропинка, и лесок, В поле – каждый колосок! Речка, небо голубое – Это все мое, родное. Это Родина моя! Всех люблю на свете я! Literal translation I learned that I have An enormous family: Both the path and the little wood, In the

Coming Up · Books · Moscow · Observations

Moscow libraries give away about 70,000 withdrawn books, bookable through a website

Moscow's libraries are once again giving away withdrawn books: some 70,000 volumes in all. The mechanics of the project are very simple: you register on the website, browse the list of books by author, subject or title, or the list of libraries, choose the editions you want,

NB! · Books · Education · Humour

Learning Latin with Winnie-the-Pooh

NB! · Books · Moscow · Pop Culture

At Pushkinskaya Metro Station, a Pixelated Pushkin Invites Passengers to Read His Books in the Metro's Electronic Library

NB! · Books · Observations

And Brodsky was simply reproducing a commonplace piece of Victorian wisdom

NB! · Books · Pop Culture · Humour

Neil Gaiman warns at once that his official Tumblr is no better than the unofficial ones

NB! · Interviews · Books · People

Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich tells the Spanish news agency ABC that she is writing a book about events in Ukraine

Books · Society

Klaus Mann foresaw catastrophe in Germany in “Mephisto”, published in 1936

The horror awaiting Germany was foretold by Klaus Mann as early as 1936, in "Mephisto". He puts the following warning into the mouth of one of the principal characters, the strange writer Theophil Marder: "The worst will come to pass. Remember me, children, when that day arrives.

Art · Books · Observations

Outdated Russian transcription of Bosch, Leonardo and Vermeer in a 1930 book

If you ever fancy reading a hundred-year-old book on art at your leisure, be prepared to fail to recognise half the names you meet, or at the very least to be surprised. Gieronimus Bos instead of Bosch, Lionardo spelt with an I, Yan fan Eyk, Van-Dyck with

Books · Mores · Saint Petersburg

I Knew Two Lovers Who Lived in Petrograd in the Days of the Revolution and Did Not Notice It

Boris Pasternak

Art · Books · Mores

The tragic tale of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, slain by his brother and her husband Giovanni, who surprised them together, is known to us thanks to Dante, who placed the story of real historical figures, Francesca da Rimini, Gianciotto and Paolo…

The tragic tale of the lovers Paolo and Francesca, slain by his brother and her husband Giovanni, who surprised them together, is known to us thanks to Dante, who placed the story of real historical figures, Francesca da Rimini, Gianciotto and Paolo Malatesta, in Canto V of the "Inferno&

Books · Observations

Alexander Blok on doves and the bygone times of Paolo and Francesca

What angered me most of all was. That it was not we who were kissing, but the doves, And that the days of Paolo and Francesca are gone. Alexander Blok