Michelle Puelo, Shakespeare In His Study Back in 1976 and 1977, a celebrated British poet Gavin Ewart composed two sonnets in free verse, mentioning and contemplating William Shakespeare. In case you ...
Many years ago I got a book full of lovely rhymed short stories. They were written by Bulgarian children author, Radoj Kirov. He was born on February 6, 1916, and studied Engineering in Prague, Bratis...
Boris Pasternak - It Is Not Seemly to Be Famous reads as an artist's manifesto of the importance of inner growth over the public fame...
Michael Cunningham signing books in Moscow, November 18 Moscow is renowned for its unexpected and colossal traffic jams – and never more so as when you’re waiting for a speaker to arrive t...
Christ the Saviour Cathedral Christ the Saviour Cathedral I am reading Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, the Russian 1933 Nobel Laureate in Literature. In the 1917-18 Diary that precedes the narrative...
Earlier this week I had to recall how, during a trip to Carmarthen in 2007, I walked into a Waterstone’s shop and took a textbook on the English language off the shelf. It was a manual for schoo...
Whenever my native country’s people win awards and receive accolades, I feel immensely proud and happy. Alexander Sokurov has won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival f...
I shall continue telling you about and showing some of the gems of my home library. A large part of it consists of my childhood books, including those in English. I have already shared an old b...
Ray Bradbury It may be coincidental or not, but Russians must have a particularly soft spot for the American sci-fi classical author. How can you otherwise explain the fact that yet another screen ada...
Shalom Aleichem Not far from the synagogue in Bolshaya Bronnaya St. stands a small monument to the great Shalom Aleichem. Immediately as we saw his figure we began to exchange recollections of Fiddler...