About the new novel by Lily King "Writers & Lovers" Euphoria, the previous novel by Lily King, translated into Russian, was written based on biographies of American anthropologists who studied the wild tribes of Polynesia and the culture of Japan. Her new book, recently published in the same Phantom Press Publishing House, was created on autobiographical material and talks about the everyday life of a novice American novelist.

Fragment of the book "Unexpected Truth about Animals" We are used to thinking that nature is beautiful and diverse. However, behind the romantic admiration of the world around us, we forget that it is also very strange. Lucy Cook “The Unexpected Truth about Animals”, from which the reader finds out that wild pandas, is the exact opposite of his lovely brothers from the zoo, is called upon to remind you of this, and the sliven is the perfect survival machine.

In my opinion, this book is not only the most important statement to date on the topic of relationships, love and emotional life, but also one of the most fundamental studies of how modern society works in general. It seems to me that in its significance for the beginning of the 21st century it is comparable to Durkheim’s “Suicide” for the end of the 19th century. Illouz indeed starts from the Durkheimian tradition, since the subject of her research is social anomie.

Interview with Biblician Veronika Androsova The apocalypse is mentioned in mass culture much more often than other biblical books, but its content is by no means reduced to the set of grotesque eschatological images and number 666. What is actually narrated in the book of revelations, who, when and why it is not read during Orthodox worship? Tatyana Tsvetkova discussed these and other issues with Veronika Androsova, a biblicalist and candidate of theology.