Why didn’t Turgenev’s novels become tabletop books to the extent they deserve; what is the difference between a “Turgenev girl” and a “post-Turgenev girl”; h...

Dmitry Bykov reflects on how it happened that the devil became the most charming hero of Soviet literature. How does “The Master and Margarita” relate to the...

“Of all the canonical figures of Russian literature, Anna Akhmatova evokes the most heated and painful discussion, and sometimes the most lively hatred. In a...

An interview with Limonov and an anniversary essay about the literary critic I. Volgin, a detective story-game and an essay justifying fairy tales were publi...