Fragment of the book of Vincent Robert "Banquet Time" The publishing house “New Literary Review” was published by the book of the French historian Vincent Robert “Time of banquets: the policy and symbolism of one generation (1818–1848)”. It is dedicated to how in France the time of restoration and the July monarchy, banquets have become a place for political debate. Gorky publishes a fragment of this work. With political banquets, the situation is the same as with all the rest.

Rudyard Kipling and his time 135 years ago, on September 26, 1884, the Lahore (then British India, now Pakistan) Civil and Military Gazette published the story “The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows.” It became the first published work of fiction by 18-year-old correspondent Rudyard Kipling (a collection of children's poems published three years earlier does not count).

News of the book market and electronic book publishing from Vladimir Kharitonov Salinger was digested, the optimism of the publishers and the honesty of readers: Vladimir Kharitonov tells about all this in the next issue of our constant section “Books, Money, Eight Bits”. So the new book season has come. The Moscow Book Fair is more beautiful than the former. Publishers with sellers go peppy - their sales are growing. True, there are fewer books. WTF? But first about the main thing.

Translated science fiction September The Chinese Magacademy, Afrofuturism with a human face and the Nigerian version of the Slavic fantasy: Once a month, Vasily Vladimirsky talks about the most interesting news of translation science fiction. Today we will talk about the books of Rebecca Kuang, Tade Thompson and Marlon James. Rebecca Kuang. Opium war. M.: Exmo. Fanzon, 2019.