With the beginning of a large war to the eternal Russian question "Who is to blame?" The “war” post was added and a powerful arrangement in the form of the works of Hannah Arendt, Theodore Adorno and Karl Yaspers. In the traditional section “Sunday sermon” Anna Narinskaya* explains why such seductive parallels with Nazism are only confused today.

Soviet people believed all their lives in a magical state under the name "West". Anna Narinskaya also believed in him, who left Russia after the start of a full -scale war - and ended up in the present, not an imaginary West. In a constant section of the Republic “Sunday sermon”, she talks about why it is normal to be disappointed in Europe, and not to compare it with Russia is not. I remember myself very well at this moment. Summer of the Moscow Olympiad.

Anna Narinskaya about the paradox of Judith Butler and the "Palestinian answer" American philosopher Judith Butler. Photo: Aldara Zarraoa / Getty Images For a short time that has passed since the terrorist attack of Hamas on Israel, I was asked at least twenty times the question: are I disappointed in the left “discourse” (I put it in quotation marks, because it is possible to use the word “discourse” seriously more, but they ask just that)?

Petersburg poet Anatoly Naiman was hospitalized after an extensive stroke. This was reported on Facebook by his adoptive daughter, a literary critic Anna Narinskaya. According to Narinskaya, Anatoly Naiman had a stroke during a performance with a report on Osip Mandelstam.

What is wrong with the sculpture of Urs Fisher? Photo: Artem Ramazani-Zubov / TASS Recently, a huge sculpture appeared on the Swamp Embankment in Moscow, depicting ... Well, everyone can decide what it portrays. Its author, the famous Swiss artist of the URS Fisher, gave the work the name "Big Clay No. 4". Judging by art history descriptions, this is a monument to the artist’s creative thought.

The historian of the Soviet LGBT community Ira Roldugin-about the premiere of the opera, which was based on letters of Siberian homosexuals "Simple." Photo: faz.net “Simple” are a self-name of the gay-pile of students and workers in Petrograd/Leningrad. Composer - Sergey Nevsky, directors - Ilya Shagalov and Sergey Nevsky.

The writer created a "group portrait against the background of life" The cover of the book of Yuri Growth "Group Portrait against the backdrop of life." Photo: Svetlana Vidanova / "New Gazeta" This book has only one drawback. But significant. This is, in fact, its weight. This folunt is hard to keep even on the knees. The only way to handle it is a respectful turning on the coffee table.

Pyotr Mamonov was gone Mamonov in the film "Taxi Blizz" / Frame RIA Novosti For the first time, I saw Peter Mamonov and the “Sounds of Mu” in the late eighties - a student. It was a housing concert: the listeners were sitting on the floor almost close to the musician. Everyone smoked. In the kitchen, someone listened to some kind of music-it seems to me that The Doors group (Mamonov, by the way, did not ask to turn off).

The reunification of the heroes of the series "Friends" fans have been waiting for seventeen years. Instead, they received the reunification of the actors who played these friends Actors of the series "Friends". Photo: Era An hour and a half release called “Friends: The Reunion” was released on May 27 on the HBO MAX channel.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - 100 years At demonstrations in Moscow, 1989. Photo: RPS / ULLSTEIN BILD VIA Getty images What do we remember about him? The inventor of the hydrogen bomb, the "enemy of the Soviet regime", an unbending exiled. Remember the phone call of Gorbachev, who marked the end of Sakharov’s link and the beginning of political changes in the country.

The book of the International Buker Prize included the book of Maria Stepanova Prior to this, Russian authors fell into this list only twice - Lyudmila Ulitskaya (2009) and Vladimir Sorokin (2013). The prize has existed since 2005 and has been awarded to the works of non -ang -speaking authors translated into English.

Why doxa is the power that our authorities are afraid Armen Aramyan, Natalya Tyshkevich and Alla Gutnikova in the Basmanny court. Photo: Arden Arkman / "New Gazeta" Three years ago, in Moscow, on charges of creating an extremist community, ten young people were detained. One of the detainees was a minor. Another two - the girl and the young man - eighteen turned away shortly before the arrest.

Question for the discussion: where is the line for which self -preservation goes into servility? Read and vote The book of Kira Yarmysh, who did not fall at the Non/Fiction exhibition I can imagine how this happens. Several good people, who are managers with something important and significant, are discussing plans.

Will the new ethics change the relationship between writers and information providers who claim co-authorship? Everything was mixed up in the Oblonskys' house. Perhaps writing it like this, without quotes and attribution to the author, I will incur accusations of plagiarism. But even if so, you can’t say more precisely: everything is mixed up in our house of writers and readers.

Soviet school textbook as a textbook of life Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New in St. Petersburg" The collision of Nikita Mikhalkov on protest artists (if you get so much, then what else can you want, do not lie that, receiving that money, you can be at least something dissatisfied), I personally regard a bunch trick of a rich person, who himself believes that, having money, there is nothing more to wish for.