Culture and art

Review of Alexey Salnikov’s novel “The Petrovs in the Flu and Around It” More precisely, not even a review, but rather impressions from reading it. The novel...

Review of Dmitry Bykov's novel "June". We read straight ahead, not noticing historical allusions, so as not to spoil anyone’s mood.

Review of D. Glukhovsky’s novel “Text”. A very significant event that can only be welcomed. Migration from science fiction to the realistic genre. It happens...

Review of Evgeny Vodolazkin's novel "Brisbane". It could have been shorter.

Review of G. Yakhina’s novel “My Children.” The author sincerely admires the language and the picturesque panorama, although he does not hide some disappoint...

The travails of a novice author who doesn’t know how to start his new book and wonders whether the beginning of a work is so important.

When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary bi...

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891–1940) is one of the very best in Russian literature. It is varied, entertaining, very cultured and brilliant. Moderately ...

A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to meaningful music composition in any genre

Actor Yuri Bogatyrev viewed his life through the prism of the characters he played. The world around him seemed harsh, and he sought protection from it in cr...

The purpose of the manifesto is to present the author’s assessment and vision of the era, as well as to indicate the need for changes in art based on the aut...

The famous science fiction writer Henry Lyon Oldie (common pseudonym of Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky) talks about... no, not about cinema, but, as usua...