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Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell (born 1974)

journalist, actor, literary critic

  • Michigan State University
The disaster artist
Addicted
Flight or Fright
The Best of Mcsweeney's - Volume 2
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Apostle
Superhero stories
Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism
Extra lives
Magic Hours
Los Angeles Review of Books - Quarterly Journal
Chasing the sea
Superhero stories
Superhero stories
Creative Types
This Lovely Life
Dieu Vit a Saint-Petersbourg
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder (born 1969)

historian, literary critic, political scientist, academic

  • Brown University, University of Oxford
Nationalism, Marxism, and modern Central Europe
The Red Prince
Inhuman Land
Brotherlands
Bloodlands
On Tyranny
The Road to Unfreedom
Our Malady
Black earth
Thinking the Twentieth Century
The Reconstruction of Nations
Sketches from a secret war
Power of the Powerless
Understanding Ukraine
The Wall around the West
The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Stalin and Europe
Toward Xenopolis
On Freedom
Jett_one_of_us_is_a_conman
Getting Lead-Bottomed Administrators Excited about School Library Media Centers
Rėkanstrukt͡syi͡a nat͡syĭ
Eddie Dying
Tautų rekonstrukcija
Sobre la tirania
Under Swiss Protection
Antiochus Kantemir
Antiochus Kantemir (1708-1744)

poet, diplomat, philosopher, translator, literary critic

  • Saint Petersburg State University, Slavic Greek Latin Academy
Materīaly dli︠a︡ bīografīi kn. A.D. Kantemira
Sochinenīi︠a︡ kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ Antīokha Dmitrīevicha Kantemira
Sochinenii︠a︡, pisʹma i izbrannye perevody
Heinrich Eberhards, Freyherrn von Spilcker, Königl. Preuss. Flügeladjutantens und Obristlieutenants, der Königl. deutschen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg Ehrenmitglieds, versuchte freye Uebersetzung der Satyren des Prinzen Kantemir
Reli︠a︡t︠s︡īi kn. A.D. Kantemira iz Londona (1732-1733g.)
Sobranie stikhotvoreniĭ
Satyres du prince Cantemir
Aleksey Merzlyakov
Aleksey Merzlyakov (1778-1830)

poet, literary critic, translator

  • Imperial Moscow University
Pesni i romansy A. Merzli︠a︡kova
Vospominanīe o Ḟedori︠e︡ Ḟedorovichi︠e︡ Ivanovi︠e︡
Pi︠e︡sni i romansy
Russkīi︠a︡ pi︠e︡sni Merzli︠a︡kova i T︠S︡yganova
Kratkai︠a︡ ritorika, ili Pravila, otnosi︠a︡shchīi︠a︡si︠a︡ ko ..
Eduardo Castillo
Eduardo Castillo (1889-1938)

journalist, translator, poet, literary critic, autodidact

  • autodidact
Aquella bella época ..
El árbol que canta
Cuentos inéditos
Obra poética
Tinta perdida
Poemas
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1834-1925)

sculptor, painter, biographer, historian, theatre critic

  • Trinity College Dublin
Laurence Sterne. --
The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards
The Life Of George The Fourth, Including His Letters And Opinions; With A View Of The Men, Manners, And Politics Of His Reign
Memoirs of an Author
The life of Laurence Sterne
The world behind the scenes
The Kembles
The romance of the English stage
The operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
Beauty Talbot
Mr. Gilbert's humor
Inma López Silva
Inma López Silva (born 1978)

theatre critic, translator, theatrologist

Maternosofía, ou, O embarazo da escritora primípara
Neve en abril
New York, New York
Memoria de cidades sen luz
Tinta
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov (born 1963)

chess player, politician, journalist, critic

  • Azerbaijan University of Languages
Unlimited challenge
Winter is coming
How Life Imitates Chess
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov
Child of change
How life imitates chess
How life imitates chess
La vie est une partie d'échecs
Shakhmaty kak modelʹ zhizni
Velikoe protivostoi͡anie
Velikoe protivostoi︠a︡nie
Zou dui xia yi bu
Checkmate!
24 lecciones de ajedrez
On my great predecessors
The Sicilian scheveningen
Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors
Caro-Kann , classical 4 ... (B)f5
Moi velikie predshestvenniki
Batsford chess openings
Toxic precision
Sicilian-- e6 and-- d6 systems
Fighting chess
Kasparov Vs Karpov 19861987
            
                Modern Chess
Fighting chess
Moi velikie predshestvenniki
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov
How life imitates chess
Deep thinking
Garry Kasparov on Fischer
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors,  Part 1
London-Leningrad championship games
Batsford chess openings 2
Modern Chess Series, Part 1
Lessons In Chess
Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 2
My games
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 5 (My Great Predecessors)
Debiutnaia revoliutsiia 70-kh [The Debut Revolution of 70s]
Garry Kasparov's chess puzzle book
New world chess champion
Kasparov teaches chess
El Campeon Ensena Ajedrez
Moi Velikie Predshestvenniki: V Shesti Tomakh: V 7 TomakhTom 4: Fisher i Zvezdy Zapada[My great predeccessors: In seven volumes: Volume four: Fischer and the western stars]
Kasparov on the King's Indian
La pasión del Ajedrez
The test of time
Garry Kasparov's Chess Puzzle Book
Gari Kasparov 1981-1984
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov
New in Chess Yearbook
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 3 (My Great Predecessors)
Sicilian
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors,  Part 2
Garry Kasparov's Chess Challenge
24 lecciones de ajedrez / 24 Chess Lessons (Coleccion Jaque Mate / Jaque Mate Collection)
Caro-Kann
The Attacker's Advantage
Shi jie guan jun jiao ni Xi Yang qi
Kasparov's Greatest Games
Deep Thinking
La Defensa Caro-Kann
Waarom het leven op schaken lijkt
Fighting Chess
Mis geniales predecesores
My Games (An Americans Chess Promotions Chess Book.)
Child of Change
The centenary match: Kasparov - Karpov III
The blueprint
The Ultimate Grandmaster
Sit͡s︡ilianskai͡a︡ zashchita, Skheveningen
Learn chess with Gary Kasparov
Kasparov v. Karpov, 1990
Garry Kasparov's fighting chess
¡Jaque mate!: iniciación al ajedrez para niños
L'épreuve du temps
Batsford Chess Openings
New in Chess Yearbook
Ispytanie vremenem
Kasparov commente
New in Chess Yearbook (Supplement to New in Chess Magazine Series)
Garry Kasparov's Fighting Chess
L'est indienne entre les mains de Kasparov
Classical Caro-Kann
Learn Chess With Garry Kasparov
Batsford Chess Openings II
My sozdaëm v Rossii realʹnui︠u︡ oppozit︠s︡ii︠u︡