Read more about English classics published in Russian After perestroika, many new translations appeared of those books that during the Soviet period existed in Russian only in one version, or were simply not published. In addition, some pre-revolutionary translations have returned to the reader. How do several translations of the same work differ from each other? Which of them are actually different editions of the same text?

What to ask at bookstores The classic history of the Gothic novel, the chronicle of the decolonization of India, the everyday life of the plebs in Ancient Rome, lectures by Andrei Zaliznyak for schoolchildren and a collection of articles by Thaddeus Zelinsky: as always on Fridays, the editors of Gorky talk about the most interesting, in our opinion, new products. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

About Sarah Danius's collection of essays "Cathedral of Silk" The Ivan Limbach Publishing House has published a collection of essays, “The Silk Cathedral,” by Sarah Danius, a legendary literary scholar, a “popularly beloved intellectual” and a “feminist icon,” as she was often called in the Swedish press. Danius also became the first woman to hold the post of permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards Nobel Prizes.

Fragment of the book “How the Wise Men Got to Chelm. The history of one folklore tradition of the Jews of Eastern Europe" European romanticism, as is known, laid the foundation for folkloristics - the science that describes oral folk art. In the 19th century, within the framework of each national tradition, collections of proverbs, sayings and other tales created among the common people began to appear.

From the book by Tristan Garcia “Form and Object. Treatise on Things" Tristan Garcia (b. 1981) is called one of the most prominent representatives of modern French philosophy. The treatise “Form and Object” introduces the Russian reader to the thinker’s conceptual project, which Quentin Meillassoux described as “speculative encyclopedism.” We publish a fragment of the introduction to the ambitious work.

Maxim Batshev - about the editor-in-chief of the New Chronograph publishing house The other day, Leonid Yanovich, the founder and editor-in-chief of the New Chronograph publishing house, passed away. Maxim Batshev recalls the most important books and series he published over more than thirty years of work. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

About Lan Xiaohuan's book "The Visible Hand: State and Economic Development in China" The basis of the Chinese economic miracle of the late 20th century is the effective work of the state bureaucracy based on approaches that developed many centuries ago, says Chinese economist Lan Xiaohuan. Unlike the West with its invisible hand of the market, the East is accustomed to relying on the wisdom of a central authority that knows where the path to success lies.

About "Dialogue with God" by Jordan Peterson Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has gained wide and controversial popularity through his endless battles with left-liberals, feminists, communists and, in general, everyone whom he considers the enemies of the human race. Not long ago, he decided to try his hand at a kind of pop theology, releasing the book “Dialogue with God.” Philip Nikitin checked how much it corresponds to Christian teaching.

An excerpt from Olga Togoeva’s book “The Heretic Who Became a Saint” Joan of Arc was not always a folk heroine for the French: her transformation into a symbol of the nation began after the French Revolution and culminated in the works of historians of the 19th century.

Grigory Gukovsky and the birth of the science of Russian literature of the 18th century Russian literature of the 18th century has long been considered a boring threshold to the Pushkin period. Grigory Gukovsky was the first to present it as an independent era with its own internal logic: he created an entire scientific school and in his short life managed to change the idea of ​​the development of our literature.

Gorky publisher Boris Kupriyanov talks about modern military prose The current special military operation that Russia is conducting in Ukraine has a role model approved at the very top of the political spectrum - the Great Patriotic War. Anyone who says or writes anything about current events on the battle line should be guided by it. Over the past four and a half years, modern Russian writers have managed to create a whole corpus of relevant texts.

Fragment of Ernst Jünger's essay “Worker. Dominance and Gestalt" Marxist-Leninists were not the only thinkers who, at the beginning of the 20th century, ascribed to the proletariat the role of gravedigger of the bourgeoisie and dreamed of the dictatorship of the working class as the highest stage of social development. In Germany, radical conservatives in their own way saw a world in which the main place would be occupied by people engaged in manual labor.

Which Homer adaptations are really worth watching? In a crazy world, watching a normal film adaptation of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is a strange and illogical idea. It is much more reasonable to turn to the abnormal and crazy interpretations of Homer's texts that anime fans, the Disney studio and Andrei Konchalovsky created for you by the sweat of their brow.

From “All the Flowers of Africa” by Semyon Pavlyuk Why do African sorcerers need the hair of a white man, how did the Malian Dogon attract unhealthy attention from the yellow press, and who did the Xhosa tribe call Russians? Read about this in an excerpt from the book “All the Colors of Africa” by geographer and traveler Semyon Pavlyuk. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

American Odyssey by Vladimir Mayakovsky “My dear Ellie” - this is what Vladimir Mayakovsky called in a letter the Russian emigrant Ellie (Elizabeth) Jones, whom he met in New York, and the two-year-old girl Helen Patricia, who was born to them. For many years, the birth of their daughter was kept secret. The secret was revealed only in the late 1980s, and in 1991 Ellie Jr. visited Moscow for the first time.