Item category 2: Arts & Literature

Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia...

1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: ‘This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead...

Lean Zoltan Szabo's Painting Secrets Learn dozens of fun and effective watercolor techniques from the master. Zoltan Szabo shows you how to use your paint, brushes and palette knives to create the look of wispy clouds, jagged granite, rolling surf, sun-gilded snow and much more. And if you love t...