Fragment of the book “The Old Bookshelf” by Valery Shubinsky Our regular author Valery Shubinsky has published a collection of essays about literature, “The Old Bookshelf.” We are publishing an article about Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. ...In the same year, 1685, when, by order of Louis, Protestants were expelled from France, the unthinkable happened in England: a Catholic, James (or James in English transcription) II, became king.

Reading biography of Vladimir Shinkarev Vladimir Shinkarev is known as an artist who invented Mitkov (however, he defiantly left this movement back in 2008). And as a writer, whose books - for example, Maxim and Fedor - was read out by the entire Leningrad underground, including Boris Grebenshchikov. But since 2010, Shinkarev does not fundamentally write prose.

Why is the new novel of the French misanthrope especially close to the Russian reader Corpus publishing house translated and released Michel Welbek’s novel “Serotonin” - another sentence to the modern world, issued by the famous scandalist and misanthrope. Eduard Lukoyanov - about why this book is much wider than cynicism and egregious non -prunes, which, however, are enough in it. Michelle Welbek. Serotonin. M.: Corpus, 2019.