English critics compare this author with James Joyce and Thomas Pincon. His cultural essays are published by London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and other leading intellectual publications. They almost do not talk about him in Russia. Samizdat continues the cycle of short profiles of writers: this time the literary critic Igor Kirienkov talks about Tom McCarthy, a contemporary artist, art theorist and an outstanding novelist.

Presenter : Yegor Sennikov / July 24, 2019 Samizdat regularly publishes deciphering the best podcasts of the Glagolev FM radio. Today we, together with the author of the Blue Marchate Podcast, Yegor Sennikov, understand why the occupation of France by Nazis is perceived erroneously, Sartre was not at all who it seems today, and why everything is not so unambiguous.

This week, on the Husky’s YouTube channel, the online prime minister of the film “Lucifer”, for whom he hanged himself in the hotel window, burned himself and shot a whole filming group of glossy edition. The filming of this movie itself turned into a performance with a seizure of reality, and it seems that it has not yet ended.

The author of Samizdat spoke with several representatives of new musical directions - musicians take part in the upcoming two -day Form festival. It turned out that modern music cannot live without the past, and improvisation and voice give birth to new directions. New academic music Modern academic music is a successor to European operas, symphonies, sonata and other genres of the XVII - XIX centuries. Unlike other modern areas, she puts the figure of the composer at the head.