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Gagarin nigdy nie był w Kosmosie i dlatego musiał zginąć!

István Nemere, węgierski pisarz i dziennikarz, przez wiele lat gromadził dokumenty na temat rzekomego „lotu” Gagarina. Część materiałów skonfiskowała polska Służba Bezpieczeństwa! Książka zawiera dowody, że Gagarin nigdy nie latał w Kosmos. Demaskuje niezliczoną ilość kłamstw podanych przez oficjalne źródła sowieckie i samego Gagarina.

Derrière l’interprète de Je t’aime… Moi non plus, qui fit scandale et conquit la planète en 1969, se cache un Gainsbourg plus secret. C’est l’homme intime que révèle Franck Maubert, son histoire et ses goûts. Si, pour Serge Gainsbourg, il y avait les arts majeurs et les arts mineurs, il ne s’est illustré, à son grand regret, que dans la chanson. Il s’ouvrait peu sur son destin de peintre contrarié, qui a persévéré dans cette voie jusqu’en 1957, année où Boris Vian lance sa carrière.

Son admiration pour les chefs-d’œuvre des maîtres suscite l’intérêt d’un jeune critique d’art, Franck Maubert. Leur rencontre les lie en 1985. Gainsbourg a trouvé à qui parler peinture, dandysme, esthétique. Ensemble ils passeront des journées chez lui, rue de Verneuil, visiteront le Louvre, feront la tournée des grands ducs… Ce livre retrace le parcours d’un artiste hors norme, qui a traversé non seulement la chanson, mais aussi l’écriture, la photographie, le cinéma. Il montre la force d’un créateur et d’un poète qui a marqué son époque et influence encore, loin des clichés, la musique d’aujourd’hui.

Franck Maubert (prix Renaudot essai 2012 pour Le Dernier modèle, Mille et une nuits) est écrivain, auteur de romans (dernièrement, Ville close, Écriture, 2013) et de nombreux livres d’art (dont Maeght, une aventure de l’art vivant, avec Y. et I. Maeght, La Martinière, 2006).

125 лет назад в древней японской столице Киото появилась компания Nintendo. В конце семидесятых компания совершила головокружительный прорыв в область высоких технологий, и, создав классическую видеоигровую консоль Famicom, NES навсегда изменила досуг многих миллионов людей в мире. В знаменитой книге авторитетного американского публициста Дэвида Шеффа увлекательно и подробно рассказывается о длинной истории Nintendo, о создании консолей и игр для них, о бизнесе и о том, как происходило формирование видеоигровой индустрии.

Gay Propaganda brings together original stories, interviews and testimonials to capture the lives and loves of LGBT Russians living both in Russia and in exile today. It is an intentionally provocative riposte to Russia’s recently passed and ill-defined ban on “homosexual propaganda.”

As part of a strategy to consolidate political control in Russia following massive pro-democracy protests that shook the government, President Vladimir Putin decided it needed an enemy to unite the country. The Kremlin opted to demonize gays and lesbians. In June 2013 Putin signed a bill banning the “propaganda” of so-called non-traditional relationships. Predictably, in the months that followed, anti-gay attacks spread across Russia.

The stories gathered in Gay Propaganda offer a timely and intimate window into the hardships faced by Russians on the receiving end of state-sanctioned homophobia, as well as the the humor, passion, and resilience people show in the face of adversity. Here are stories of men and women in long-term committed relationships as well as those still looking for love; of those raising kids or negotiating difficult family dynamics; of those facing the challenges of continuing to live in Russia or joining a rapidly growing exodus.

In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time. While most Allied and foreign journalists spun their writing on the widely held belief that the German people deserved their fate, Dagerman disagreed and reported on the humanness of the men and women ruined by the war — their guilt and suffering. Dagerman was already a prominent writer in Sweden, but the publication and broad reception of German Autumn throughout Europe established him as a compassionate journalist and led to the long-standing international influence of the book.

Presented here in its first American edition with a compelling new foreword by Mark Kurlansky, Dagerman’s essays on the tragic aftermath of war, suffering, and guilt are as hauntingly relevant today amid current global conflict as they were sixty years ago.

Polish journalist Paweł Pieniążek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and Greetings from Novorossiya is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict. He was the first reporter to reach the scene when Russian troops in Ukraine accidentally shot down a civilian airliner, killing all 298 people aboard. Unlike Western journalists, his fluency in both Ukrainian and Russian granted him access and the ability to move among all sides in the conflict. With powerful color photos, telling interviews from the local population, and brilliant reportage, Pieniazek’s account documents these dramatic events as they transpired.

This unique firsthand view of history in the making brings to life the tragedy of Ukraine for a Western audience. Historian Timothy Snyder provides wider context in his superb introduction and explores the significance of this ongoing conflict at the border of East and West.