Culture and art

“In “The Holiday That Is Always With You” there is a place full of simple mockery where the author seems to sincerely advise a mediocre novelist to become a ...

“The plot of this ballad appeals to the style of Kharms. One critic, who can be called Roman Arbitman and settled in Saratov (no hints about Griboyedov!), de...

Harmful, useful advice for young authors, authors of science fiction and mostly fantasy. On the cover is an illustration by N. Yu. Kudryavtseva for the book ...

Memoirs of Marc Chagall's son David McNeil is a story about the days spent next to Chagall, something between a story and a memoir. David's mother is artist ...

“Criticism frightens many - although it is true that it teaches us little to write and that models and examples are much more powerful, although it is also t...

“Inexorable death swung its terrible scythe - and there was no one kind person in the world!.. The dear poet, sincere friend, defender of the oppressed, comf...

The famous British art critic, prose writer and essayist John Burger (1926–2017) analyzes from artistic and historical-political points of view the work of t...

“It was a long time ago, a very long time ago, but still it was... In St. Petersburg, the salon of a great enlightened lady, Zoya Yulianovna Yakovleva, was f...

“Several years ago, Maurice Decobras, a novelist translated into dozens of languages, and who gladly calls himself “Maurice Anatolyevich,” did me the great c...

“An interesting book, an interesting person... And, perhaps, there is no shortage of jokes. What a joke, and a terrible, even tragic one. War...”

“We will not dwell on what has already been written and said about Aldanov. Why repeat what is known: that in his novels, historical and everyday, he is tale...

“Much has been written about how former Russian dignitaries, officers, public figures, artists, painters and writers live in exile, but a small, albeit small...