Monica Spivak about the insights and disasters of the author of the novel "Petersburg" Gorky continues the cycle of materials about Russian modernism. This time we talked with a monkey Spivak, a literary critic and an employee of the memorial apartment of Andrei Bely: we discussed with her a Sukkub who arrived to white, the construction of an anthroposophical temple with a Steiner, a toy bear of a great writer and other important things.

How we all did not get into digital communism Last year, MIT Press published the book of the historian Media Benjamin Peters about how they came up with in the Soviet Union, but could not create the Internet. In the next issue of the heading “Notes of Technodermaist”, Kirill Martynov tells about this publication and the inglorious fate of Soviet cyberotopia strangled by bureaucrats.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" In December, a second collection of comics will be released about the Tyumen superhero Tyumen, who gets power from oil and does not know how to save the world. Georgy Elaev, the author of the collection, artist and co-owner of the Space Cow comic book shop, told the city publication Vslukh.ru about this. The superhero regularly finds himself in stupid situations, travels through time and ends up in a parallel Tyumen.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" This year, participants in the “Open Your Mouth” reading aloud championship will read books by Yasnaya Polyana award winners. This was reported in the project's press release. The championship qualifying rounds will begin in August and will be held in more than a hundred cities. The all-Russian final will take place in the summer of 2018 in Moscow. The founders of Yasnaya Polyana will give the winners more than two thousand books.