13 most interesting links of the week Every Friday, the poet and critic Leo Oborin, addicted to all the most interesting things that, in his opinion, was written during the past period about books and literature on the network. Today are links for the third week of October. 1. In Kommersant, Igor Gulin writes about new books, including the "Lives of the Miliated Artists" by Alexander Brener.

Translator about one of the best fanfiction Potteriana The American specialist in artificial intelligence Elizer Yudkovsky wrote the novel Harry Potter and Methods of Rational Thinking - the most famous fan fiction dedicated to the heroes of Rowling, and at the same time the most affordable presentation of the ideas of transgumanism. The collective translation of the book into Russian took five years.

An excerpt from the main Italian bestseller of the 21st century At the beginning of November, the Sinbad publishing house will publish the novel “A Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante, the most famous living Italian author in the world. This is the story of two girls growing up from a disadvantaged neighborhood in Naples in the 1950s. "Gorky" publishes the beginning of the novel translated by Olga Tkachenko; the review can be read here . 1.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" An American publishing house has released the longest comic book - a 2,000-page adaptation of the Old and New Testaments, The Guardian reports . The comic took seven years to create. More than 45 illustrators were involved. The Bible published by The Kingstone consists of 12 parts, combined into three volumes.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" A table appeared with all the spells mentioned in the books of the Harry Potter series. It is available on the website of the service for creating electronic interactive tables. You can view a list of spells in the order of their appearance in books or by the number of mentions. The creators entered into the table every quote with a spell from all seven Potter books. For example, the most popular spell is “Accio”.