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Five audiobooks worth listening to “Gorky” and the Storytel service continue their joint column dedicated to the most interesting audiobooks. In today's episode - the witch refuses to kill, the economy refuses to work, Bunin returns to Capri with the Chinese, the young man tries to save Tsoi, and the detox leads to paranoia. Alexander Dolgov. Save Tsoi. A novel where fiction and reality are intertwined. Bombora.

Ivan Davydov - on the 110th anniversary of the author of the story “In the Trenches of Stalingrad” On June 17, 1911, Viktor Nekrasov was born - the future author of the story “In the Trenches of Stalingrad”, laureate of the Stalin Prize, political emigrant. About his fate and why this first book of his is still one of the most honest stories about the Great Patriotic War - in the material of Ivan Davydov. Viktor Nekrasov died in Paris in 1987.

Igor Permnikov - about the book of a judicial entomologist Marcus Schwartz What unconditional knowledge does a judicial entomologist have - a specialist who is versed in the most ominous insects? At least the knowledge that human life can sometimes end in the most unsightly way, and instead of relatives and friends, only the corpses of black and the cader are the recessed case will come.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The finalists of the 16th season of the National Literary Award “Big Book” have been named in Moscow. These included the authors of 13 of the more than forty books that made up the long list, according to the award’s website. The short list of the Big Book is as follows: Narine Abgaryan. “Simon” (AST, 2020) Dmitry Bavilsky. “The desire to be a city” (New Literary Review, 2020) Yuri Buida.

Selection of employees of the Dutch Embassy in Russia A novel about the return of the tablets with the Ten Commandments to heaven, a story about the Iranian Revolution and “Journey to Muscovy” of the 17th century: at the request of “Gorky”, employees of the Dutch Embassy in Russia talk about their favorite Dutch books.

Excerpt from the book “Evolution of desire. Life of Rene Girard " The first full -fledged biography of Rene Girar, a philosopher, who discovered a stable bunch between violence and religion (the review of Gorky, can be read here ) was published in the UFO. We publish a fragment of a study from which it follows that the theoretical revelations of the thinker inspired, apparently, the disgusting manifestations of racism in the United States. Cynthia L. Haven. Evolution of desire.

About the meeting of the travel prose of the futurist Sergey Tretyakov The publishing house of the European University in St. Petersburg has issued a collection of travel prose by Sergey Tretyakov. The publication includes notes of the Futurist poet about traveling to China and Georgia, Czechoslovakia and Siberia. Konstantin Mitroshenkov - about how sincere internationalism and colonial optics have paradoxically in this book. With Ergai Tretyakov. From Beijing to Prague.