Criticism

The afterword to volume 9 of the 29-volume collected works of Jules Verne talks about the novel “Swiss Robinson” by Wyss and its sequel “The Second Homeland”...

A writer about writers. A fascinating look from a twenty-first century world creator at his predecessors. “Beetles in the Anthill” is a book by Alexander Rom...

Criticism of Marxism in most cases is based on a distortion or misunderstanding of this teaching. Another example of this approach is given by S. Kara-Murza’...

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (1929–1974) is a charismatic figure in Soviet cinema and Soviet literature. They speak about Shukshin only with reverence, or at m...

Critical article - a response to A. Gaidar's story "The Shotgun". In this article, the author criticizes some common modern ideas about the combat qualities ...

Viktor Tsoi is one of the brightest and most dangerous discoveries that await every teenager in the Russian-speaking part of the world. Tsoi himself is quite...

Review of R. Minkoff’s film “Stuart Little” (Stuart Little, 1999), written for the magazine “If” and published in No. 7, 2000.

The afterword to volume 12 of the collected works tells about the origins and history of the creation of the novel "Mrs. Breniken", as well as the creation a...

Free essays on various topics: memory, literature, and teaching.

Note from a regular author of IL, writer and journalist Marina Efimova, “The boom of dystopias in America.” The topic of the note opens in the very first par...

In the “Rereading the Classics” section there is an article by Alexander Livergant “Yorick or Stern” with the subtitle “On the 250th anniversary of the death...

The review of the publication of two volumes of Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam’s memoirs became primarily a study of her personality, literary gift and place...