Библиотека имени Кальдера

With apocalypse fever receiving a boost from all those alleged Mayan prophecies surrounding 2012, Daniel Kalder undertakes a brief survey ...

Grigory Chkhartishvili, AKA Boris Akunin, is an international publishing phenomenon. A scholar of Japanese language and culture, and a form...

At the London Book Fair earlier this month, Russia was featured as Guest of Honor. Nearly every Russian writer of distinction was in atten...

For me, like most people, memory is intricately intertwined with music.  Another Brick in the Wall pt 2 was a hit the year I started schoo...

Robert Irwin is an English writer who has written six novels and numerous studies of different aspects of Islamic culture. He is also the M...

Drawings from the Gulag begins unexpectedly, with a headshot of a proud homo-sovieticus from one of the USSR’s eastern minorities. Wearin...

My favourite record shop was not a shop, but a once illegal open-air market in Moscow, Russia that went by the name ‘Gorbushka’. Legend ha...