Culture and art

A collection of articles by modern Greek authors about church arts: about the distinctive features and characteristics of Byzantine painting and about the me...

Many of Saltykov’s polemical speeches in Sovremennik are devoted to the ideological struggle with the journals of the “pochvenniks”, “Vremya” and “Epoch”. On...

In the preface to the anthology Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983), R. Dahl discusses the gender mysteries of literary creativity and the features of ...

At the request of the editors of the magazine “If”, a fantastic couple from Kyiv conducted a comparative analysis of three “Solaris”: Lem’s book, Tarkovsky’s...

Isaac Asimov's foreword to a collection of detective fiction stories. The collection was published in the USA in 1968, reprinted 15 times!

Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980) is a giant of Russian-language mass culture, an extremely popular personality from the 1970s to the 1990s. Today, when the Inte...

The book tells with humor about the working days of crowd scene actors, whom the viewer sees every day in the cinema, but knows nothing about how they play w...

Reflections on photography, its nature and specific cultural functions. S. Sontag’s book “On Photography” is published in its entirety by the Ad Marginem pub...

The satirical fable incorporates the negative experience of events that have happened and are happening in our country, associated with embezzlement and wast...

The Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (1884–1942) created an entertaining and easy read without boredom. He almost looks like the So...

Review of the book “On the Altar to Neptune” by L. Ovsyannikova.