Sensational materials of the century before last The reporter orders five young virgins with certificates from doctors. In the 19th century, journalistic investigations came into fashion in England and America. Writers and reporters were introduced into the most diverse environment in order to subsequently come up with grandiose revelations. For example, Dickens took a trip to Yorkshire Incognito and after the horrors of private schools in the novel Nicholas Nicklby.

The best of the literary Internet: 12 of the most interesting links of the week Hugo is back at the top, the “Poetic Pharmacy” is rushing to the rescue, and the prose writer has been put in charge of culture: read this and other literary Internet news in Lev Oborin’s regular column. 1. Poet, laureate of the Nonconformism Prize Vladimir Gertsik has died. Elena Semenova remembers him in NG-ExLibris. She quotes his poems and credo: “I am a student and follower of Velimir Khlebnikov.

About Nabokov's dreams, his trains and the closed Russian museum of the writer Today marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Nabokov, and the Ivan Limbach Publishing House will soon publish the book “Nabokov’s Self/Dream,” consisting of the dreams he recorded.