Criticism

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...

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.

“The spring of the twentieth century finds us at a time of complete dissolution of trends in painting. Much has thawed under the hot rays; a lot has collapse...

“...The content, as you can see, is simple, but it is presented with such love, with such sincerity that the play itself can undoubtedly be considered a trul...