The first review of the Arundati Roy Book "The Ministry of the highest happiness" In 1997, Arundati Roy's debut novel “The God of Logs” was awarded the British Buker Prize. The next book of the Indian writer had to wait 20 years. And finally on June 6, 2017, the “Ministry of the highest happiness” went on sale. In Russia, AST Publishing House bought the rights and promises to release a translation in the fall. Alexander Cyntsev read the novel in English and shares his impressions. Arundhati Roy.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Psychologists at the University of Sussex have found that children remember new words better if the books they are read to have no more than one illustration per page. The British online publication Tes writes about the results of the study. Children who were read books with one illustration learned twice as many words as their peers whose parents chose books with more pictures.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The first book in the Yazidi language published in Russia was a collection of poems by Narina Latif “Wounded Heart”. The publication “Yaroslavl Region” writes about this. The author of the book was unable to come to the presentation of the book, which took place in Yaroslavl on June 29. Instead, the writer’s brother was present, as well as representatives of the German, Tatar and Uzbek communities.

Mikhail Prishvin about summer rain June 20, 1915. The sun alternates with warm rain. In the forest it’s like in a greenhouse. It’s raining, you stand under a spruce tree, you stand for a while - and again the sun and this: these washed trees are then greeted under the rainbow as new, extraordinary, drawn out like minarets, palaces - this is how you see trees after an illness or after prison, this is how you long to see them in city ​​in anticipation of spring.

Nazictrization, the invention of tradition, archaism and Russian modernism Gorky continues a series of materials devoted to Russian modernism (last week we published an interview with Gennady Obelin ). Recently, the publishing house “New Literary Review” was published by Irina Shevelenko’s book “Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism and the Search of modernist aesthetics in Russia”.