Fragment from Alexander Pavlov’s book “The Peripeties of Post-Marxism” The American philosopher and literary critic Fredric Jameson was such a multifaceted thinker that the classification of his works alone has almost become a separate scientific discipline. Even if you turn to one of his last two books, Inventions of the Present, it will require considerable intellectual effort to understand the principle by which the 19 essays included in it were selected.

About Lessons in Justice by Jonathan Sacks How does the Torah help us understand the tragedy of Shakespeare's Othello or, for example, the activities of Julian Assange? Philip Nikitin learned about this after reading “Lessons in Justice” by Jonathan Sacks. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

Archived conversation with writer Christopher Priest Christopher Priest (1943–2024) - British science fiction writer, author of the novels “The Prestige”, “Glamour”, “The World Overturned” and other equally famous works. Artem Komarov spoke with the writer about his views on modern literature, the image of the future and his love for Russian authors in July 2022, two years before his death.

About Pavel Nosachev’s book “Cartography of Ignorance: Mysticism, Psychiatry, Neuroscience” The UFO publishing house has published a new book by religious scholar and cultural scientist Pavel Nosachev, in which he explains why attempts to call religious experience “mystical,” treat it with pills and study it through a tomograph are questionable from the point of view of humanities.

A short story from Nikita Eliseev’s collection “Leisure of the 90s” Nikita Eliseev’s collection of short stories “Leisures of the 90s” recreates the shaky inner world of a hero named Kolya, a resident of St. Petersburg in the last decade of the last century. In his mind, realistic scenes are interspersed with surreal visions, current news is adjacent to classical subjects, and the language of high literature coexists with street abuse.

About Susan Amussen's not yet translated book “What does a name mean?” The conspiracy hypothesis that Shakespeare did not write the plays that we are accustomed to associate with his name has nothing to do with reality, since it is based on assumptions that are not just shaky, but fundamentally incorrect, contradicting the entire volume of accumulated historical data.

Interview with historian Tatyana Evdokimova Philipp Scheidemann (1865–1939), one of the founders of the Weimar Republic, Germany “between the Reich and the Reich,” tried in the 1920s to understand how he and his contemporaries led his homeland from the First World War to democratic pluralism and the Treaty of Versailles, and wrote a book about it, The Collapse of the German Empire.

An excerpt from the introductory article to the book “Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov. Correspondence, 1921–1959" The publishing house "New Literary Review" has published a complete corpus of correspondence between three key figures of Russian formalism - Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum and Yuri Tynyanov.

From the book “The Dugout Movement of the mid-1960s - early 1990s and its inspirer I.K. Pisarev” In the late 1960s, in the Moscow region, poet and tourist Ilya Pisarev began building forest huts and digging dugouts, providing quasi-philosophical grounds for this activity. Gradually, a circle of like-minded people formed around him, in its own way typical of late Soviet society. We publish an excerpt from a study of the “dugout movement”.

About Alice Kusti’s book “Dendrarium. Five gardens of prisoner Degtyarev" Botanist Vladimir Degtyarev was collecting plants and seeds for the Imperial Botanical Garden and traveled half the world for this purpose, which did not prevent him from eventually ending up in the Solovetsky camp, where he continued to work in his field and created a camp arboretum. About how the biography of this extraordinary but little-known person was restored by Alisa Kusti, author of the book “Dendrarium.

On the history of French anti-Soviet pulp literature In the first half of the 20th century, the series of “People's Novels” published by the Maison de la Bonne Presse was widely circulated among the conservative French public. These were examples of popular literature with a strong Catholic bent, whose characters regularly found themselves in difficult situations, but with the help of a good priest and faith in God, they eventually found the right path.

About the re-release of Eduard Verkin’s forgotten novel “Hello, brother, die!” Eduard Verkin, known to readers as the author of post-apocalyptic novels, first turned to this fantastic genre fifteen years ago in the pentalogy “Inferno”. But that attempt went largely unnoticed: Verkin wrote under a little-known pseudonym, and the topic, as they say, did not take off at the beginning of the prosperous 2010s.

From Furious Modern by Thomas Wagner Sociologist Arnold Gehlen was known for his right-wing conservative views and contempt for left-wing intellectuals. However, a study of anarchy written by a young colleague with radical beliefs unexpectedly won his praise. An excerpt from Thomas Wagner’s book “Furious Modernity” is dedicated to this story. The Great Epoch of Sociology”, which is published by Gorky today.

Towards the long-awaited release of Thomas Pynchon's longest novel After several years of intense anticipation, intrigue and rumors about rights problems, Thomas Pynchon’s Against The Day, a 1232-page novel in which the writer tried to fit the entire universe, is finally being released in Russian, translated by Maxim Nemtsov.

Fragment from Ekaterina Skorobogacheva’s book “Stepan Erzya” Before the revolution, the Soviet and Erzya artist Stepan Dmitrievich Erzya (Nefedov) studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and managed to become famous for his works, including at international exhibitions.