A raucous, moving account of an underground show business circuit — from vaudeville to burlesque to carnivals to raunchy nightclubs — told by its wisest doyenne.
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In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was introducing economic reform but clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair,...
An essay printed in March 1958 issue of Saturn magazine, a few months after the Soviet Union had launched the Sputnik causing public outcry in the USA over the effectiveness of the American space...
Россия, ноябрь 2009 года. Молодой московский юрист-аудитор Сергей Магнитский, прикованный наручниками к койке в камере следственного...
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Red Thrust: Attack on the Central Front, Soviet Tactics and Capabilities in the 1990s
Written in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the general implosion of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, Zaloga creates an interesting and extremely plausible scenario of World War III. The focus shifts from the strategic view to...
Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate...
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A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant...
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets...