About Mel Brooks' autobiography On June 28 of this year, the outstanding Hollywood comic director Mel Brooks celebrated his centenary and did it not on the other side of reality, but on our sinful earth - which is not a reason to read selected passages from his autobiography All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business? Moreover, the creator of “Young Frankenstein” (1974) and “Space Eggs” (1987) himself is not at all against his memoirs being distributed to all and sundry.

About Mo Yan's novel "Garlic Ballads" Chinese reforms in the late 1970s are traditionally seen as an unqualified success story, transforming a poor agricultural country into a modern global leader. However, behind the façade of successive victories there were periods of confusion, social conflict and painful adaptation.

New preface to the classic translation of Xenophon's Anabasis “Anabasis” by Xenophon, translated by Sergei Aleksandrovich Osherov, was first published half a century ago and has deservedly enjoyed the recognition of readers since then. For the reissue of this work, prepared by the talweg publishing house, a new preface was written by Lyubov Summ. We invite readers of Gorky to familiarize themselves with it.

What to ask at bookstores Yuri Kulikov about Voinovich, Peter's tax reform and a previously unpublished novel by Witold Gombrowicz. As always on Fridays, the editors of Gorky read the most interesting new book releases of the week for you. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

282 theses on the book “Hyposubjects” by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer Hyperobjects have been replaced by hyposubjects, believe philosophers Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer. It is difficult to argue with them, but Eduard Lukoyanov took on this impossible task - and won. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

About Gael Fay's novel “Jacaranda” After the fratricidal massacre between close nations ends, people need to continue to live. The novel “Jacaranda” by the French-Rwandan writer Gael Fay tells how difficult this task is, using the example of Rwandans, witnesses and victims of the genocide, or their children, who only learned about the monstrous details many years later. About this - in the material of Tatyana Shcherbina.

How the soldier Ivan Chonkin was born Vladimir Voinovich planned to make a career as an honest, but quite mainstream Soviet writer, but due to his temperament, everything ended up not going according to plan and turned out to be a much greater success than could have been expected. Yuri Kulikov’s new book “The Rock” is dedicated to the life and creative path of this wonderful writer - we publish a small excerpt from it.

A fragment of Denis Zakharov’s book “Capote in the USSR: the true story of one journey” In mid-July, the St.

The doctor explains why reading cannot replace pills A book is a best friend and an insidious villain, an enemy for the eyes and a surprise for the psyche, an antidepressant and a depressant rolled into one. Before idealizing reading, consult with doctors - they already know what is best for you.

About the book “Sertans” by Euclides da Cunha The famous book of Euclides da Cunha “Sertans. Long recognized as a classic of Brazilian modernist literature, The War of Canudus is perhaps more modern than it seems. Its author, in an attempt to describe the essence of the national identity of Brazilians, revealed one of the key conflicts of our time - between archaic strata of society and a new type of state, brutally persecuting any dissent in the sphere of biopolitics.

Why Yuk Hui fragments the future Yuk Hui (yes, we know that he is no Hui, but we will follow the established tradition) has been haunting everyone who is interested in contemporary philosophy in the light of unstoppable technological progress for many years. And now his next, but not at all passable collection, “Fragmentation of the Future”, through the efforts of the publishing house “Ad Marginem”, saw the light at the end of the tunnel in Russian.

From the book “The Shattered Temple. Reformation in Europe" Historian Anna Seregina reconstructs the greatest schism in the history of Western Christianity. In her presentation, Martin Luther's theses are not a sudden rebellion, but the result of difficult circumstances of religious life that developed over a long and painful time. An important element of this life in the late Middle Ages were brotherhoods of believers. Read more in an excerpt from the book “The Broken Temple.

About the life and works of Arabist Boris Chukov Common Place published the novel “Another Try to Survive” by the classic of Moroccan literature Mohammed Zefzaf, whom Paul Bowles highly regarded. This book was translated into Russian back in 1988 by the Soviet and Russian Arabist Boris Vladimirovich Chukov (1938–2021). At the request of Gorky, Igor Pernikov spoke with his colleagues Dmitry Mikulsky and Maria Nikolaeva about Boris Vladimirovich and domestic Arabic studies.

Carlo Ginzburg: historian as storyteller The works of the recently deceased Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg made a very significant contribution to modern historiography; they will long serve as a source of valuable ideas and observations and a subject for scientific discussions. Grigory Bakus, researcher at INION RAS, presents his view on his work on witch hunts in Western Europe. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

From the book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares on the prospects of artificial intelligence There are many frightening predictions associated with artificial intelligence - from the destruction of the labor market to the complete destruction of life in the universe. Where these fears come from and how realistic they are is the subject of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book “If Someone Creates It, Everyone Will Perish,” an excerpt from which is being published by Gorky today.