"Cynical theories" and their enemies Helen Placarus and James Lindsay became famous throughout the world with a satirical “Research of resentment”, during which academic publications fell frankly delusional articles on critical theory and gender research. Some of them were accepted for the publication of the general glee of trolls and the expected indignation of the victims of a cruel draw.

Interview with poet Marina Kudimova. Part one Our Peredelkino series of materials continues with a conversation with Marina Kudimova, poet and chairman of the board of the local public organization “Town of Writers of Peredelkino”. Why in Tbilisi in the early 1980s could they order a review of Leo Tolstoy’s letters and pay for it the annual salary of an average engineer? Why were candidates for members of the Writers' Union forced to carry coffins with deceased fellow writers to the cemetery?

About the book of Veronika Zuseva-Ozkan "Virgin-warrior in the literature of Russian modernism" What is common between warlike Amazons, ferocious Valkyries, fearless heroes, exalted jeanni d'Arc and fiery revolutionaries with Nagans? How was the archaic image of the king-girl in the literature of the Silver Age? And how do the brutal heroines of such poetesses as the love of the capital, Anna Barkova or Maria Levberg differ?

An excerpt from the book “No Power. Theory and practice of anarchism " The Paris Commune and OCCUPY Wall Street, the fears of the bourgeoisie and experiments with the constitution - in the new book, British Ruth Kinna disassembles the history of anarchism along the bones. We publish a fragment of the chapter “Short-term utopias”, which describes the fictional world “Bologa Bollo”, at the same time similar and unlike the dreams of Prince Kropotkin. Ruth Kinna. No power.