From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The editors of the journal “New and Literary Review” (NLO) together with the European University in St. Petersburg will hold an international scientific conference “Dignity as a historical concept and the central category of our time,” according to the press release of the event. “The concept of dignity has become an important object of analysis in Western thought and in relation to historical perspective.

News of the book market and electronic book publishing from Vladimir Kharitonov A lot of interesting and important events that are directly related to book, occurs not only in publishers and bookstores, but in computers and courtrooms, on bank accounts and Internet servers, in the applications and lines of the code.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The house of antique books “In Nikitsky” will sell the manuscript of a never-published poem by Andrei Bely at auction. This is reported on the organization's website. The manuscript is dated 1923 - then Bely lived in Berlin, was going through a family crisis and was thinking about returning to Russia. Marina Tsvetaeva and other memoirists of the poet recalled his “broken behavior” and “dancing tragedy” in Berlin bars during that period.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" 18 more cities have been added to the broadcast license for the literary radio “Kniga,” according to its Facebook page. Before this, the radio station operated only in Moscow and Volgograd. https://www.facebook.com/1050FMBook/posts/1843859632558142 On Radio “Book” (105.0 FM) they talk about writers, read excerpts from their letters and diaries, fragments from books, and so on.

About the new novel by Alexei Ivanov Alexey Ivanov. Tobol. A lot of called. M.: AST, editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2016. Alexei Ivanov defined the genre of his new book Tobol as a romance. In fact, this, of course, is a novel-country. Because the appearance on the book shelves of the first part of the most large -scale creation of the Ural Recluse is just one of the episodes of an amazing story, a little like a fairy tale.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" A trailer for the pilot episode of the series, based on the fantastic story “Roadside Picnic” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, was posted on the Internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcnXgvIF6U The pilot episode was originally ordered by WGN in 2016, but then the company's management abandoned the series.