Who will rule the world: Perry Anderson about hegemony The concept of hegemony was invented by the ancient Greeks, but in our time it gained a new life: in the first half of the 20th century, they wrote about how to achieve hegemony, in the second - how to get rid of the hegemony of the United States, Chinese developed their own concept of hegemony, Vladimir Putin spoke against hegemony at the beginning of the first presidential term.

Fragment of the book "A Brief History of Drunk from the Stone Age to the present day" It was the love of alcohol that made humanity go to a sedentary image. At least, so Mark Forsyt, author of the book “A Brief History of Drunk Age to the present day, thinks: what, where, when and for what reason”, which was published at the Alpina Non-Fix.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The film “Sentence” will tell about the last days of the writer. Varlam Shalamov died in 1982, forgotten by everyone. “When I saw photographs of Shalamov in a nursing home, I realized that this needed to be done. There are no films about him,” Rossiyskaya Gazeta quotes the director and scriptwriter of the film, Dmitry Rudakov. The main role in “Sentence” should be played by Pyotr Mamonov.

How animals enhance the library experience Meetings with writers, presentations and discussions of key book and magazine novelties, as well as important literary projects will be held at the venues of the Pioner cinema and the Pioner Bookstore. The curator of the updated literary program will be literary critic and poet Sergei Sdobnov.

How animals enhance the library experience The animation division of Warner Bros. will produce a new film adaptation of George R.R. Martin's book. The children's fantasy The Ice Dragon, first published in 1980, is being made into a feature film. According to Variety, the executive producer of the animated film will be Vince Gerardis, who works on “Game of Thrones.” The expected release date for the cartoon has not yet been announced.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" This year the Patriarchal Literary Prize was awarded for the eighth time. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports , the 2018 laureates were prose writers Konstantin Kovalev-Sluchevsky and Viktor Potanin, as well as poet Vladimir Kostrov. The main criterion when choosing the winners was “the contribution of writers to the affirmation of spiritual and moral values ​​in the life of a modern person, family and society.”