16 poetry books of the outgoing year: Gorky's choice Many books of poetry are published every year, some of them are actively discussed by critics and readers, some remain unnoticed. At the request of Gorky, Lev Oborin conducts an audit and tells us which books of the outgoing year are worth paying attention to. Every year more noteworthy poetry books are published in Russia than one person can read.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" An audiobook with voice recordings of Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks has been published in the United States, according to the series' blog. Diane...: The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper can be purchased on Amazon or iTunes for almost six dollars.

What's wrong with the "Big Book", "Russian Booker" and "Natsbest" The results of the 2016 award season raised many questions: two of the three main awards were received by Leonid Yuzefovich, the third by Pyotr Aleshkovsky, about whose novel most critics speak extremely unflatteringly. Elena Makeenko looks into what problems our literary awards faced this year. Russian literary prizes are eternal hostages of the annual harvest.

Modern philosophy, literary criticism and bookseller revelations: the best in telegram Recently, there has been a growing general concern about the dependence of Internet users on social media, which is taking up more and more time. And at the moment when it’s time to get rid of the string of Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, many suddenly willingly accept another virtual space for procrastination - Telegram, a messenger with the ability to blog without comments.