Declaratively inconsistent outline about the image of Yekaterinburg in literature and life The publicist, translator, an employee of the Ural Biennale Dmitry Bezuglov gave his native Yekaterinburg with a plowed look and came to the conclusion that the myth of a single image of the city can be opposed to an attempt to outline him in a patchwork manner - as a conglomerate of legends, subjective interpretations and literary versions.

Fragment of the book "delusional work" What is “real” and “fake” work? Is the work of the clerk in a large investment bank greatly different from work in the warehouse of clown noses? The answers to these and other non -obvious questions are the American anthropologist and activist of the anarchist movement David Greber is looking for “delusional work” on the pages of his book, one of the chapters of which is published by Gorky today. David Greber. Delusional work.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" 8056 book monuments in high resolution have become available on the website of the National Electronic Library. Among them is the first reliably dated book published in Moscow - “The Apostle” by pioneer printer Ivan Fedorov. This is stated in a message from the Press Service of Federal Libraries received by the editor. The monuments included books, manuscripts, maps, visual materials, as well as posters and leaflets.

About the life, philosophy and books of the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Kuni The Libyan Ibrahim al-Kuni is one of the most read Arabian-speaking authors in the world, whom the Reza Negarstani calls among his predecessors in the Theory-Fiction genre. Al-Kuni was educated in Moscow, studied Marxism, was under the serious influence of Russian classics, but for some reason is still not known in Russia.