Dmitry Borisov - About the book of Vladimir Kovalzon "The Pendulum of the Sleep" A person needs a healthy sleep for happiness - twice a day and once at night. Now it seems to be a utopia - however, the “abnormality of the brain life of a modern cultural person” was written in the 19th century. At the same time, we are used to thinking that with sleep and wakefulness things are nowhere easier: a person either sleeps or does not sleep.

About Roman Mikhailov’s new book “Wait for the summer and see what happens” Gorky usually does not write about books that exist only in electronic format, but today is a special case. One of the most extraordinary Russian prose writers, Roman Mikhailov, author of “Ravinagar” and “The Wrong Side of the Rat,” has made his new novel “Wait for Summer and See What Happens” publicly available.

An excerpt from the book of Matsu Gurny about the participation of anthropologists in the events of 1914–1918. While the warring armies have clarified relations in the fields of the First World War, the European scientists entered their own “war of the spirit” to find out who, from the point of view of strict science, has more rights to win. The most direct participation in this “Krieg Der Geister” was taken by anthropologists who developed the doctrine of human race.

Ivan Kozlov - about Nikolai Kostarev and his literary heritage About a century ago, a request for adventurous adventure novels arose in Russia - the young Soviet government saw in them a way of promoting revolutionary ideas, dressed in an easy and fascinating form. Many writers responded to this request-including Nikolai Kostarev, who, in collaboration with the footfoot poet Venedikt Marth, who created the novel “The Yellow Devil”, a strange and extremely peculiar monument of the era.