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Shameless clickbeite from Eduard Lukoyanov “Sobakistan” Vitaly Terletsky burst into the short-list of the Nose Award, the Kommisia festival this time turned out to be incredibly-native-fantastic, and the Russian collectors of comics finally acquired a licensed “Transmet”. Gorky editor Eduard Lukoyanov sums up the results of the year of the domestic comic industry. Let's start by tradition with a pleasant one.

About the book of Valerie Kivelson “Magic of despair. The moral economy of witchcraft in Russia of the XVII century " The heart and liver experience human feelings, the manuscript text causes a sacred thrill, and the male midwife is deservedly forgotten. These and other amazing facts can be learned from the work published in the series “Modern Western Russiastry”, which publishes books by modern American and European scientists about Russia and Russian culture. Valerie Kivelson.

The circulations of book publishing in the country fell to indicators of 80 years ago In the pandemic, book markets behaved predictably: sales of paper publications fell or if they grew up, as in the USA and Great Britain, it was only not much, but for the suppliers of electronic content, the year turned out to be successful.

Interview with neuroscientist Dick Swaab We are less different from animals than we used to think. This thesis is often brought up to belittle human achievements, but in our case the opposite is true: animals should not be underestimated - after all, like us, they have moral standards, creativity and even the ability to create. And studies of their brains can tell us a lot about the structure and principles of operation of the human brain.

Review of Deborah Lupton's book "Fat" The world has become more sensitive to the problems of various discriminated groups, but fat people still suffer more than most. Australian researcher Deborah Lupton wrote an entire book about the phenomenon of obesity. At the request of Gorky, Anastasia Pyari read it and told how this work could influence readers. Deborah Lupton. Fatty. M.: HSE Publishing House, 2020. Translation from English by Anastasia Arkhipova.