In the subway of New York you can now download books for free.

New York City authorities continue to build Wi-Fi into the metro to provide Internet access to passengers while on the subway. Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo presented the Subway Reads program, in which everyone can read 5 adapted works of classics, in ...

Answers to the Harry Potter questions you were shy about asking

On the night of July 31, a new book about Harry Potter was published, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which has already been adapted into a play in London. Since 1997, 7 volumes of the saga have already been published, which has turned into the main children's - and not only - reading...

Vladimir Voinovich: Russia will be saved only by new restructuring

Vatutinki. Russia. Vladimir Voinovich, one of the most famous dissident writers who was expelled from the USSR in 1980 (and deprived of citizenship from 1981 to the 90s), lived mainly in Germany and the United States. Then he returned to Russia. Now he lives in a dacha near Moscow ...

The release date of the eighth book about Harry Potter has become known.

The eighth book in the Harry Potter series will be released on July 31, publisher Little, Brown and Company announced. It will be the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The book will go on sale the day after the premiere of the play at the Palace Theater in London's West End.…

Ulitskaya: Those who write off, remain in the second year. For a second term. For the second century

Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Her name is familiar to most Russian-speaking readers around the world and has become synonymous with amazing, amazing and honest books that are unmatched. Her works have long been included in the category of those that in no case should be missed. Her sincere ...

In Russia, burned books published with the help of the Soros Foundation

The Vorkuta Mining and Economic College burned books published with the support of the Soros Foundation. This is stated in the response of the Komi Ministry of Education to the request of the 7 × 7 edition. In total, 53 copies of two different books were burned. According to the head of the college library Elena Vasilyeva, one of the books was called "Worldview" and was "a little bit religious." Vasilyeva clarified ...

Hitler's book suddenly became a hit in Germany

The circulation of Adolf Hitler's two-volume book "Mein Kampf" with annotations and notes, which went on sale in Germany last Friday, January 8, sold out in just a few hours. The book was published by the Munich Institute of Contemporary History. The circulation totaled four thousand copies. Primary goal…

Collection of quotes Putin's - New Year's gift to officials from the Kremlin

Russian officials received a collection of quotes from President Vladimir Putin for the New Year from the Kremlin administration. The book was named “Words that change the world. Key quotes from Vladimir Putin ”. The publication was handed over to about a thousand officials, accompanied by a letter from the deputy head of the presidential administration, Vyacheslav Volodin. According to him, the book will help to understand the basis ...

Hitleryung Solomon: a Jew who convinced the fascists that he was German

The book “Hitlerjunge Solomon” was published in Russia, written by Solomon Perel, who in 1941 in Minsk managed to convince the fascists that he was an ethnic German. 16-year-old Jewish teenager Shlomo from Grodno was captured by the Nazis. According to Perel, the Germans believed him because...

Texas publisher apologizes for 'slaves'

The largest US publisher, McGraw-Hill Education, had to apologize for an oversight made in geography textbooks. In the publisher's manuals, widely used in the state of Texas, slaves brought to America are called “laborers.” At the same time, as the AP agency notes, such a loose definition of black slaves did not attract...

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