Criticism

“We, modest school teachers, have a much more decent and familiar classroom audience for talking about Russian classics, and in general, to be honest with yo...

“Ilf and Petrov have recently left active reading, as it seems to me, for two reasons. The first is that the older generation knows them by heart, and we are...

“Hello, dear friends! I admit, I take on this topic with some joy, because usually, when you start talking about someone beloved by everyone, you immediately...

In the recent Soviet past, domestic historians had one Customer in the person of the state. The state paid historians and rightly demanded from them results ...

Written during Olsen's five-month stay at the American Academy in Berlin, There. is part critifictional meditation and part trash diary exploring what hap...

In these three letters, Marcel Proust, with the help of Elena Baevskaya, appears in a new role for the Russian reader - the role of a translator. We get acqu...

The songs of the French poet and composer Georges Brassens (1921-1981) and our compatriot Vladimir Vysotsky (1936-1980) fully realized the rich artistic poss...

The article, one of the first in the Russian press, tells about the work of the American science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.

“Color of November. The color of a foggy, brainy St. Petersburg night. Not now, but 50 years ago, or even 60 years ago. It seems like Fontanka. A flat and em...

Grac's phenomenon arose at the intersection of two literary movements of the 50s: experimental prose, largely inheriting the tradition of surrealism, and the...

From one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger oc...