Books

An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia

“As the book’s subtitle indicates, Mr. Ziegler uses one of the world’s great rivers as a vehicle to pursue this story—and what a vehicle it is. . . . [He] writes beautifully, and with the fervor of a naturalist.” —The Wall Street Journal

A millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream-like fits, is arrested and accused of murder.

A revelatory volume of 2 of the 20th century’s great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler

A rare portrait of the dystopian reality of Chornobyl, Ukraine, as it was before the Russian occupation of 2022.

Commemorating the October 2017 centenary of the Russian Revolution, this book is an anthology of wide-ranging voices and scholarship throwing fresh light on this momentous historical event.

The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illustrated book.

Based on extensive research and drawing on archives that were until recently inaccessible, Kristina Krasnyanskaya and Alexander Semenov document seven decades of interior design in the Soviet Union.

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert.

Featuring over 150 kiosks, this photobook provides previously unseen documentation of the remaining modernist booths that witnessed the socio-political transformation of Eastern Europe at the end of the 20th century

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

Before the War in the Skies, before the map of Tsaretsvo was sliced in two and divided, birds and humans lived in peace. To save her sister, Olga will need her wits, her cunning—and even her magic. Fantasy fiction for middle grades.