A collection of texts by a literary critic and cultural commentator for Kommersant This material (information) was produced, distributed and (or) sent by a foreign agent Anna Anatolyevna Narinskaya or concerns the activities of a foreign agent Anna Anatolyevna Narinskaya. Instead of a recommendatory list of the latest literature, which the reader rightly expects from such a book, “Not a Chaffinch” is rather a history of private thought.

Thirty -sixth and most piercing book by Alexander Brener Alexander Brener. The lives of killed artists. M.: Gileya, 2016. The XX century and not comparable to the escalation of violence gave rise to the only adequate genre of poetry - a cry. The Russian nineties with their experience of collective insight at the beginning and individual contempt at the end gave the world several such poets, rising above the philistine mass, hoping that everything that is done is for the best.

Excerpt from the new novel by Victor Pelevin On Thursday, September 8, Victor Pelevin’s new book “The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Ultimate Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons” will be released, which, as usual, claims to be the most topical statement on the topic of the surrounding reality. Gorky publishes a fragment of it. ...I often wrote reviews on currencies (and, of course, I always mentioned gold in them) - there was a great demand for these materials after the start of the crisis.

In the “Life of Remarkable People” series, another biography of Sergei Diaghilev was published - a man whose discoveries for the art of the twentieth century meant no less than Einstein’s discoveries for science. Finally, something worthy of attention. Russian art criticism did not have time to deal with Diaghilev: from a close distance he seemed either a charlatan or a magician. And less than ten years after the first “Russian Season,” the Russian ended—the Soviet began.

How the experience of writing biographies prevented Peter Akraud from writing about Hitchcock Peter Akraid. Alfred Hitchcock. M.: ABC, Hummingbird, 2016. Many filmmakers are not lucky with biographies because of the lack of interest in their heritage. With Alfred Hitchcock - perhaps the most famous of the classic directors is the situation, rather, the opposite.

An adventurous story about deciphering a medieval codex “I didn’t know that people your age still read books,” says Penumbra. He raises an eyebrow. — I got the impression that everyone reads from mobile phones. - Not all. There are a lot of people, you know, who still like the smell of books. - Smell! - Penumbra repeats.

Billions of words have been spoken and millions of pages have been written about the benefits of reading. “It’s fashionable to read”, “You need to read”, “If you don’t read, you’ll grow up to be a dunce and you won’t achieve anything in life.” Even the smartest, disciplined, intelligent boys and girls hear the instructions of grandmothers who are distracted from television series from childhood. But when people grow up, the need for reading in life ceases to be so obvious.

A collection of rare and unpublished stories by the main singer of grassroots America The small book includes publications spanning half a century, making it the most comprehensive retrospective of Bukowski's legacy.

Elena Kostyuchenko about Litella and Swarovsky's poems, which help to live Elena Kostyuchenko is a special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta and the author of reports from the worst and most marginal places of Russia, from the village of Kushchevskaya to a trailer on the highway, where women who are forced to engage in prostitution live.

Sergey Gandlevsky about Haji Murat, degeneration of imagination and dangerous samizdat Sergey Gandlevsky is a poet, author of documentary prose and editor of the criticism and journalism department of the magazine “Foreign Literature”.

In Praise of Boring: A Biography and Essay by Adolf Loos Adolf Loos. Why should a man be well dressed? M.: Strelka Press, 2016. Adolf Loos was a bore. This can be seen in all the essays he wrote during his life. Edification and narcissism are their hallmarks. He was deaf since childhood (memoirists write “deaf”), had scars on his body as a result of abdominal surgery, which did not stop him from marrying three times to beautiful women who were 20-30 years younger than him.

7 reasons to read the craziest American novel right now The Yekaterinburg publishing house Gonzo published a novel by the American experimenter Mark Z. Danilevsky. This book can be considered an example of post-postmodernity, a horror film on paper or a psychoanalytic love story, but there is no doubt that nothing like it has ever been published. “Gorky” explains what awaits the reader inside, how everything works, and why “The House of Leaves” cannot be missed.

A novel about how it is equally impossible to escape into a fairy tale and escape from a fairy tale. Under the pseudonym Sukhbat Aflatuni hides a writer, poet, literary critic Evgeniy Abdullaev from Tashkent. Last year, his novel “The Adoration of the Magi,” published in the magazine “October” from 2011 to 2015, was included in the long list of the “Big Book” and, without waiting for the results of the award, was published as a separate volume.

“I took a“ hundred years of loneliness ”, but there are so many aureliano that it is easy to get confused” Do you need books to those who give half a day to work on a milling machine, it manages a turner brigade, automates copper production processes, conducts chemical surveys and explores heavy mechanical engineering? What and how are modern workers read?