The history of gin: from divine emanation to satanic potion Richard Barnett. Gin. History of the drink. Per. from English S. Silakova. M.: New Literary Review, 2017. At the dawn of the craft beer revolution in Russia, I sat with a fellow philosopher in one of the taverns selling all kinds of IPA, DIPA and RIS - today there are such on every corner, but in the early 1900s they seemed like an overseas rarity, whose value was not obvious.

Pop Khitov production industry and musical non-fiction One of the most striking music about music last year was John Sibruk’s “Song Machine”, dedicated to those who compose and produces hits that sound from each iron. Gorky tells what you can learn from this book about the musical industry. The book was published as part of the AD Marginem publishing program and the Garage Museum of Modern Art.

Deservedly forgotten books: “Broken Sword of the Empire” by Maxim Kalashnikov It is customary to talk about forgotten books in regime: they say, Sic Transit. In fact, oblivion of another book can tell about the world around no less than its popularity. This is exactly what Konstantin Milchin in the heading under the ornate title “Honored Forgotten Books, which, however, can be interesting to the reader and the naturalist”, is taken.

Fragment from a book about a great musician As part of the joint publishing program of the publishing house Ad Marginem and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the book “Bowie” translated by Tatyana Lukonina will soon be published - a short guide to the songs of the musician who died last year, written by the English philosopher and publicist Simon Critchley, author of “The Book of the Dead” philosophers”, “Faith of non-believers” and other works. Gorky publishes an excerpt from it.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Alpina publishing group, specializing in books about business and popular science literature, completely purchased the educational project “Theories and Practices” from the investment and publishing holding T8. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Theories and Practices” was launched in 2009.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" A series of discussions about literature is being launched in the ZIL adult library, The Village cultural center was told . The project is carried out jointly with the organization of reading mentors “Book Guide”. Discussions will take place on Fridays at eight o'clock in the evening. The meeting will be moderated by a graduate student at the Gorky Literary Institute and an employee of the Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad, Tatyana Klimova.