How animals enhance the library experience Writers, publishers, literary agents, scouts and other representatives of the book business from around the world have become victims of a scammer or scammers who, using fraudulent schemes, try to get the texts of unpublished works or, in the case of novice authors, the texts of books that have just appeared on counters.

Interview with philologist Roman Shmarakov About the medieval literature of the XII century, the reader-specialist usually does not know anything, however, in those distant times, books have appeared that many will read with increased attention and interest today-the only problem is that almost no one is difficult to translate and publish them.

On research on Russian female sexuality of the XI - XX centuries The publishing house "New Literary Review" launched a book series dedicated to gender research. It is revealed by a collective monograph by Russian researchers “Sweeping prohibitions. Essays on Russian sexual culture of the XI - XX centuries. ” At the request of Gorky, Oksana Vasyakina read it and told her why everyone should do this. Natalia Pushkareva, Anna Belova, Natalya Mitsyuk. Souring prohibitions.

From the book of Laimonas Bridiz about the “City of Wanderers” Vilnius In the HSE Bibliotheca Selecta series, HSE Publishing House saw a monograph by the Lithuanian-Canadian culture historian Laimonas Bedis “Vilnius: the city of Wanderers”. Today, Gorky publishes an excerpt from the chapter “In the Mirror of the Peoples”, which tells about the underlying state in which the capital of Lithuania was after the First World War. Laimonas Brigadis. Vilnius: The city of wanderers.

Conversation of journalist Andrei Babitsky and writer Oliver Morton In early December, the Polytechnic Museum spent a book week, to which a British journalist and writer Oliver Morton was invited as a special guest. In 2020, the Russian translation of his book “ Moon. The story of the future ”was just published in the series“ The Books of Politha ”, so Morton acted as an expert on the Moon - this topic was devoted to the questions that journalist Andrei Babitsky asked him.