Soviet science text
A Soviet science book for children includes some stunning art. A rough translation of the title: Earth Is Still A Long Way Off.
A Soviet science book for children includes some stunning art. A rough translation of the title: Earth Is Still A Long Way Off.
Ask and ye, well, might just be lucky. Keith Gessen ponders Martin Amis’ “five-year excursion through Russian history during the global war on terror.”
The great W.H. Auden had little patience for bourgeois sensibilities. “If it’s romance you’re looking for,” he told a lover, “go fuck a journalist.”
Iraq’s national library was looted and burned in 2003. Now its director is blogging about the bombings, shootings and death threats he and his staff face.
Erik Reece’s Lost Mountain, a look at the devastating effects of radical strip-mining in Appalachia, is out in paperback. On Air America, he discusses U.S. energy policy and more.