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Back to Moscow

Guillermo Erades

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Recalling the open-hearted honesty of Ben Lerner and the whisky-sour satire of Bret Easton Ellis,...

The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, #2)

Eoin Colfer

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Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video e-mail from...

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

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This title introduces James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very...

Nelson Mandela recommended War and Peace in Books (curated)

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Fiction & Poetry

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One book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace. (Although the word war was in the title, this book was permitted.) I was particularly taken with the portrait of General Kutuzov, whom everyone at the Russian court underestimated. Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people. It reminded me once again that to truly lead one’s people one must also truly know them.

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Phil Rosenthal recommended Burdern of Dreams (1982) in Movies (curated)

Burdern of Dreams (1982)

1982 | Documentary

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"I recently made a documentary about going to Moscow to try to help turn Everybody Loves Raymond into a Russian sitcom. And I had some problems. But this, this was nuts. It’s the ultimate nightmare and the wildest making-of movie. One of the all-time great metaphors for art, or life, dragging a steamship up and over a mountain was Fitzcarraldo’s burden. And so it was of the filmmaker, the great and possibly crazy Werner Herzog. Among the beautiful insights here are his rants against nature. That’s what keeps me inside watching movies."

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