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Tikhanov Library is a publishing company founded in Lund, British Columbia. We are named after the great Russian artist Mikhail Tikhanov, who traveled to Russian North America in 1817 and captured many vivid portraits of life along the Pacific Rim. A gallery of Mikhail Tikhanov’s paintings can be found here. Publishers for Palestine Statement of Solidarity.
Witness to the techtonic political shifts of the 20th century, Curzio Malaparte took it upon himself to write a detailed study of the coup d’etat. [pocketbook] / [pdf]
Written at the height of the sufferagette movement, Henry Louis Mencken sets his sight on the women of his time in this biting critique of them. [pocketbook] / [pdf]
Best known in the English speaking world for his book Le Feu Follet, which has been adopted into several films, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle considered the semi-autobiographical Gilles to be his greatest work. [pocketbook] / [pdf]
The story of Lev Nussimbaum, a young Azerbaijani nobleman, and his mad flight accross Asia to escape the Bolshevik terror sparked by the Russian Revolution.[pocketbook] / [pdf]
Stirred by the great patriotic sentiment of pre-war Italy, Harukichi Shimoi accompanied the elite Italian Arditi troops during the First World War.[pocketbook] / [pdf]
As a member of the French Parliment, Alexis de Toqueville took it upon himself to become France’s foremost expert on Algeria.[pocketbook] / [pdf]
From it’s humble beginnings in crowded internet cafes, where unemployed young men would spend hours clicking adds for a fraction of penny, “Yahoo Yahoo” (slang for cybercrime in Nigerian Pidgin) has become a booming global industry, bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the country annually…
Henry Louis Mencken, a lover of all things new and modern, did not hate modern women. “In Defense of Women” is exactly that, a defense of women against their many detractors. Where Mencken differs, however, is that he doesn’t establish his argument from a place of unreality. There are no ridiculous appeals to women’s innate goodness…
Whenever I find myself homesick I read poetry, and in particular, there is one poet that I always find myself returning to. Emily Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, a Mohawk Princess who wrote several books in high Victorian style at the start of the 1900s…
Last year while living in Mexico City I had the opportunity to visit the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS) headquarters in Mexico City and meet with several of their leaders to discuss the ideology and history of their movement.
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle’s suicide marked the end of an epoch in French publishing, and world politics more generally. While many in his class were able to deftly manouver the rapidly changing political and economic landscape of their time, Drieu la Rochelle’s decision to collaborate with the occupying regime lead to his untimely death.
F.T. Marinetti’s first novel, Mafarka the futurist, was initially published in Paris to broad critical acclaim. When it was later translated into Italian and published in Milan however, Marinetti was quickly brought before court and charged with obscenity and distributing pornography.
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