In the spring, the Ripol publishing house published a new book by one of the main Russian-language writers of the 21st century - “Chronicles of the Ash Spring” by Anna Starobinets. Starobinets needed to move the action of the novel 17 centuries forward in order to be able to talk about good and evil without taking sides in current conflicts. Lisa Birger advises Starobinets to carefully read the new book.

The publishing house of the Babel bookstore (Tel Aviv) published Armen Zakharyan’s book “Letters of Dark People”, which grew out of the popular release of his YouTube channel “Armen and Fedor” . Literary critic Lisa Birger talked with Armen Zakharyan about why to engage in education during the war. @widget type=reference id=571 — The first question is, of course, about the history of your new book. Did it come from an episode of the channel, or is it the other way around?

Cover of Oleg Kashin's novel "Bull" In February, ISIA Media Verlag published the novel “Bull” by publicist, troublemaker and regular contributor to Republic Oleg Kashin. Kashin's first fiction book in decades is an adventurous detective story set in a future in which the war in Ukraine has ended and Russia has collapsed. Is it possible in 2026 to write a fascinating book about Russia after Putin and entertain everyone? Lisa Birger thinks the attempt counts. Russia of the near future.

Bookstores in Hamburg will remain open over the Christmas holidays MARCUS BRANDT / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP 2025 was a difficult year for the book market - it was marked by the “ publisher case ,” independent bookstores were issued huge fines throughout the year for selling books that inspection authorities saw as “LGBT propaganda,” and participants were expelled from supposedly independent fairs because of denunciations.

The publishing house Palgrave Macmillan published the book “Performing Censorship: The Russian Case” by Mikhail Kaluzhsky and Yana Meerzon - the first monograph on censorship in Russian theaters in the 21st century. Mikhail Kaluzhsky is one of those who can speak about Russian theatrical censorship as a witness, participant and researcher at the same time.

About football during World War II, relations between people with bacteria and the future of the Internet (which should not be so sad) Football. War. Holocaust Edited by I. A. Altman, A. E. Herber. UFO Publishing House A small book of documentary evidence and photographs about football during the Second World War. After the 1936 Berlin Olympiad, Jewish coaches, football players and presidents of German clubs fired, many of them, a former large stars, were arrested and died in camps.

The third novel by Alexei Polyarinov, the author of the Center for gravity and Reef At the end of the spring, the publishing house of Inspiria (the exim unit) was released by Alexei Polyarinov’s new novel “Kadavra”-anti-utopia about Russia of the late 2020s. According to the plot of the book, a mysterious disaster occurred in the 1990s: figures of dead children covered with crystals of salt began to appear throughout the country. Any attempt to interact with them turns into new disasters.

The most long -awaited novel by the author of Wonguzer Yana Wagner (it was her book that was shot by the "Epidemic") One of the most discussed novels in Russian, published this year, is the “tunnel” of Yana Wagner. The writer herself calls him a “sealed thriller”: in the plot, several hundred people are locked in a car tunnel near Moscow. It is not known to the end whether at least someone will get out of this trap, but not only a denouement is curious.

Here are the 10 most interesting (including new Yana Wagner and Alexei Polyarinov) On April 4, in Moscow, the spring fair Non/Fiction opens.

And that a happy private life is impossible without rethinking the past “Wolf Time” is the book of Harald Jeneer, a German journalist and honorary professor of Berlin University of Arts. She was published in 2019 and received the Leipzig Book Fair award in the category of “Best non-fiction”. The English translation was praised by critics . In December last year, Individuum published the Wolf Time in Russian.

An interview with Lena and Evgenia Koganov - the founders of the Babel bookstore. He became an important part of the life of many emigrants from Russia Babel. Books. Tel Aviv In 2015, Evgeny and Lena Kogan moved from Russia, where they worked as editors , to Israel. In Tel Aviv, they opened Babel-one of the first independent bookstores abroad, where you could buy books in Russian.

2022–2024. List compiled by the critics "Medusa" For two years of full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, artists, musicians and writers are trying to comprehend this catastrophic event. They continue to work, including within Russia, where independent art is subject to persecution of authorities and is actually squeezed underground. Critics of Medusa have chosen films, books, musical albums and other works that are already seeming key to understanding wartime.

Leo Rubinstein always remained an optimist - even in the most difficult times for optimists. Literary critic Lisa Birger - about how he succeeded Evgeny Feldman In Moscow, at the age of 76, the poet and essayist Lev Rubinstein, one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism, laureate of the Nose Prize, died. On January 8, Rubinstein shot down a car, he was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute in serious condition.

The best films, books, games, albums and series. The choice of critics "Medusa" Games Hi-Fi Rush PC, Xbox Series X | S Bethesda SoftWorks The main game-scurry 2023. The musical action of Hi-Fi Rush was released in January-without announcements and advertising support, but this did not prevent him from becoming truly popular . In the center of the plot is a guy named Tea, who wants to install a cyberprosthesis instead of a damaged right hand-to fulfill the dream and become a rock star.

"Medusa" chose the 10 best books that helped their authors understand themselves (let them help you) In Russia, the heyday of auto -packed - prose, focused on the experience and experiences of the author. Probably, war also influenced the popularity of such literature: when any statement on the main topic of the last two years can lead to persecution, writers focus on their personal stories - about the body, growing up, relations with family or friends.