Criticism

Since science fiction writers watch films and read books - and some then also respond to what they have watched/read; and since Nolan's latest film caused mo...

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 ...

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...

One of the parts of the book about an honest and principled traffic police officer in Nikolaev. This action takes place at the beginning of his career, when,...

The collection contains reviews of three literary works by Belgorod authors: Angelika Astakhova ("Eh-ma!"), Dmitry Ivnitsky ("Intuition") and Natalya Shishko...