Following the hero of Zinovy ​​Zinik’s memoir novel “The Stolen Handwriting,” we continue to explore the world of underground Moscow in the late 1960s, getting to know new characters and the intricacies of connections between them. In the new episode, in search of a tape recorder to record a concert by Zinovy ​​Voas, we find ourselves in the apartment of the legendary Irina Uvarova, a theater expert or, as silkscreen artist Victor Joels calls her, a puppeteer.

For the last six months, we have been intensely watching the news on the “publishers case”, how ex-employees of Popcorn Books admitted their own guilt, slandered colleagues during interrogations and spoke with their last words: “Three ex-employees of Popcorn Books testified against the top managers of Eksmo, one of them made a deal with the investigation,” “Employee of Popcorn Books, where “Summer in Pioneer” was published tie”, “exposed” his colleagues to criminal activity”, etc.

material: Zinovy ​​Zinik illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili In the new episode of Zinovy ​​Zinik’s novel “The Stolen Handwriting”, the familiar dilemma of “word and deed” - in politics and art, in love and pornography - became the leitmotif of the hero’s night conversation with his confidential woman, after their meeting with Ulitin in the Artistic cafe. I slipped you a page of “James Joyce in Russian” as a forbidden secret known only to me, like an underground leaflet, a secret password.

material: Arkady Mazur illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili A stall overlooking fighting alcoholics, borscht, chebureki, pancakes heated in the microwave, pop music in Surzhik and pita bread from a nearby döner shop - this is not how you imagine the national culture presented in another country by your fellow emigrants, homesick. But it's not her either.

material: Artyom Kostyukovsky illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Exactly 35 years ago, on August 18, 1991, the film by Oleg Boretsky and Alexander Negreba was released. The movie with the prophetic title “The Day Before” is the story of people thrown out of time.

material: Kira Kiryanova illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili We are accustomed to considering illustrations to accompany the text, but practice shows that in times when there are no more words left, graphic novels, comics and picture books become the most vibrant and popular forms of literature.

material: Mikhail Edelshtein illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili For the last six months, we have been intensely watching the news on the “publishers case”, how ex-employees of Popcorn Books admitted their own guilt, slandered colleagues during interrogations and spoke with their last words: “Three ex-employees of Popcorn Books testified against the top managers of Eksmo, one of them made a deal with the investigation,” “Employee of Popcorn Books, where “Summer in Pioneer” was published tie”,

material: Fedya Otroshchenko illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili As part of her job, our editor Fedya Otroshchenko collects and reads a huge number of books from modern independent Russian-language publishing houses. Some of them become the heroes of our articles, reviews and other materials, while others remain outside the field of view of Demagogue’s readers.

material: Egor Zaitsev illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili One of the brightest young translators today, Yegor Zaitsev, has compiled for us a selection of twelve of his own translations.

material: Zinovy ​​Zinik illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Entering the legendary cafe "Artistichesky", the hero of Zinovy ​​Zinik's memoir novel "The Stolen Handwriting" discovers at the table his new friend and guide to the looking-glass world of dissidents, vagabonds, madmen, writers and philosophers of the late sixties.

For the last six months, we have been intensely watching the news on the “publishers case”, how ex-employees of Popcorn Books admitted their own guilt, slandered colleagues during interrogations and spoke with their last words: “Three ex-employees of Popcorn Books testified against the top managers of Eksmo, one of them made a deal with the investigation,” “Employee of Popcorn Books, where “Summer in Pioneer” was published tie”, “exposed” his colleagues to criminal activity”, etc.

material: Daniil Lipatov illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Egor Zaitsev (also known under the pseudonym Erog Zaitsve) is not only a wonderful poet, about whose book we wrote a year ago, not only a great connoisseur of the late Soviet underground, but also a translator of German poetry. Journalist Daniil Lipatov talked to him about this role: can a translator not only preserve, but also improve the intonation or sound of the original text? How do you know if the translation is successful?

material: Demagogue illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Yesterday, July 21, the media began writing en masse that the authorities had begun blocking the accounts and real estate of citizens who participated in opposition events abroad. Mostly they talked about the SlovoNovo festival and the Gift award.

material: Evgeniy Kogan illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Evgeny Kogan, founder of the Babel bookstore and publishing house (Tel Aviv), wrote about the writer and director Vladimir Kozlov, who occupies an important place in the independent Russian-language art of the early 2000s. In his films and books, he talks about the endless darkness of a collapsing empire.

material: Fedya Otroshchenko illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili The Meduza publishing house has published Vasily Chernyshev's debut book of prose, "Time" - a story about emigration and return, or more precisely, the impossibility of emigration and the impossibility of return.