5 new books in Czech language deserving The psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator, a collection of stories about the heroes-chudaks, a “jazz” essay on the unsteadiness of the boundaries between life and literature, recognition of love for Japan and all of Japanese and melancholy discussions about the meaning of life against the background of Georgian landscapes-Anna Agapova talks about the news of Czech literature, which has not yet been translated into Russian. Lucie faulerová.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On Sunday, March 21, a book fair dedicated to World Poetry Day will open at the Peredelkino House of Creativity, according to a press release received by the Gorky editorial office. Guests of the fair will be treated to a tour of the old building with columns, built in 1955, where writers’ offices were located.

On the anniversary of the death of Eduard Limonov A year ago, Eduard Limonov, one of the brightest figures in Russian literature and radical politics, passed away. On this occasion, we are publishing the memoirs of Andrei Karagodin, formerly a National Bolshevik of the first conscription, and now a historian and, until recently, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. The year was 1994.

10 facts from Lucy Cook's book "An unexpected truth about animals" For many centuries, people have not so much studied the life and habits of animals as they fantasized about them, based on various random observations. As a result, bats turned into Beecon’s abchits, swallows were capable of underwater wintering and so on.

From an article by Olivia Lang about writers and alcoholism The publishing house "Hell Margin" is preparing to exit the collection of Olivia Lang "unpredictable weather. Art in an emergency. " It included articles written for different publications from 2011 to 2019. We publish an excerpt from the essay “Drink, drink, drink”, in which Lang continues his reasoning, begun in the book “Journey to the Echo’s Source” already known to our readers . Olivia Lang. Unpredictable weather.