The book that is demolished in Moscow "Renovators" On May 14, a rally will be held against the renovation law, which many Muscovites are unhappy. We have prepared several materials on this event - today Nikolai Erofeev talks about a book about typical mass housing in the USSR. Philipp Meuser, Dimitrij Zadorin, Katia Sheina.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On Thursday, May 11, film playwright and writer Galina Shergova died at the age of 94. TV critic Irina Petrovskaya reported this. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1452330814847539&id=100002119047956 Galina Mikhailovna Shergova was born in 1923 in Chita, and in 1933 she moved to Moscow. I have been writing poetry since childhood.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The manuscript of the Harry Potter prequel, purchased at a Sotheby's charity auction in 2008, was stolen from a house in Birmingham. The Telegraph writes about this. The manuscript was stolen between April 13 and April 24. In addition to her, the thieves took jewelry, the value of which was not specified. West Midlands Police have asked Harry Potter fans to spread the word about the theft on social media.

How animals enhance the library experience The summer book festival, organized by the Smena center for contemporary culture, will be held on June 10 and 11 in the Kazan park “Black Lake” on Dzerzhinsky Street. The organizers of the event informed Gorky about this. The central event of the festival will be a book fair, in which dozens of large and small intellectual Russian publishing houses and bookselling companies will take part.

EG PRATT, “Witch's Office” Margaret Etwood and the “Archipelago of dreams” of Christopher Pros Twice a month, Gorky publishes a review of the new products of modern foreign prose.