Historian Sergey Alymov - about how ethnography and anthropology have developed in Russia from the 19th century to our days What role in the formation of Russian ethnography played exiles, for which Soviet scientists scolded cultural relativism and what the London anthropological “cannibal club” became famous, says Sergey Alymov, senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - How does anthropology begin in Russia?

Conversation with Alexander Mikhailovsky about the Russian fate of the German writer The publishing house "Ad Marginem" will very soon release a new edition of "The Heart of an Adventurer" by Ernst Junger, supplemented by one essay by an outstanding German writer, which has not previously been published in Russian.

Essay Ivan Vyrypaev from the collection "Siberia: Happiness beyond the mountains" The editors of Elena Shubina issued a collection of texts of modern writers dedicated to Siberia. We publish an essay from it, in which Ivan Vyrypaev talks about a difficult life in his native Irkutsk and how, in childhood, he and his mother sold a black bucket of blueberries. Siberia: Happiness beyond the mountains / Comp. Sergey Shargunov, Roman Senchin. M.: AST Publishing House; Elena Shubina, 2022.

Compiled by orientalist Maria Zetrova Korean cinema or pop music has long become part of world culture, but with the books of the authors from South Korea the world-including Russia-are familiar worse. Nevertheless, over the past decades in Russian, many books written in the country of morning freshness have already published. Especially for the "Gorky" guide to them was Maria Zetrova.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Work has begun on restoring the tiled roof at the Jane Austen House Museum in Hampshire. This became possible after the museum managed to raise the necessary funding - the last part of the amount was allocated last week, reports The Guardian . Both private individuals and Hampshire County Council took part in raising funds to produce and install more than 30,000 hand-made clay tiles.

Dmitry Borisov - about John Kelly's book "Black Death" Over the past two years, the popularity of books about infections, viruses and epidemics has grown for obvious reasons. On this wave, the book of historian John Kelly “Black Death”, first published fifteen years ago, was also translated into Russian. According to Dmitry Borisov, who studied her at the request of Gorky, there was no point in waiting for so long to present this remarkable book to the Russian -speaking reader. John Kelly.