I found out about the outbreak of war when I was in Africa. I was stunned by the news, I couldn’t believe it had happened. We were the only Russian-speakers in the Israeli group. In the evening (there was no Internet in the daytime), when I showed the group pictures of the destruction, everyone groaned, […]

This writer doesn’t need any introduction. His books have been read for several generations. Here is an interview with Ray Bradbury, printed in Playboy magazine in 1996. The worst part is that a quarter of a century later, it’s far more relevant than it was then… This is the full English version of the interview, […]

On September 1, 1939, a train was scheduled to leave Prague for England to take 250 Jewish children away from mortal danger. This train did not have time to leave; it was delayed by the German occupation troops. On that day, the Second World War began, and England became a military enemy. But before that, […]