Mikhail Levitin - about avant -garde Igor Terentyeva Mikhail Levitin is a theater director, artistic director of the Moscow Hermitage Theater, writer, author of books about Alexander Tairov, Peter Fomenko, etc.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" At the auction held in Brussels by the Arenberg auction house, they sold one of the smallest books in the world - a prayer book bound in leather that can fit on the blunt end of a pencil. Its size is 5x5 mm, reports The Guardian. The book, called The Lord's Prayer (Our Father), contains the text of the main Christian prayer in seven languages ​​- Dutch, British English, American English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish.

Three poetic news December The second book of Bogdan Agris, a modern romance of growing up based on Stesichor and pond -wing posteronia in the second collection of Dmitry Gerchikov. Leo Oborin says about the most interesting poetic books published in December. Bogdan Agris. Povilik web. M.: Russian Gulliver, 2021 There is a rather slurred concept of “late debut” - as they say about the authors who began to write or publish already in adulthood.

Interview with economist Dmitry Travin. Part 1 In the recently published book “Why has Russia fallen behind?” EUSP professor Dmitry Travin not only tries to answer a question that has long bothered many of us, but also offers a new approach to Russian history, which combines the theory of modernization, world-systems analysis and institutional economics.

About the strange similarity between the novels of Karina Shainyan and Daria Bobyleva In 2021, in a traditional paper format, new novels by Karina Shainyan “with a key around the neck” and Daria Bobyleva “Our Dvor”, which were previously available only in the electronic version, were released. The book observer Vasily Vladimir read both books in a row and found an unexpected similarity between them. Karina Shainyan. With a key on the neck. SPb., M.: Rugram_ Palmira, 2021 Daria Bobyleva.

It is generally accepted that Jews are the people of the book. But a book is still a theory, and we are a people of practice. One of the things that the Jewish people are famous for and practice is family values, this is the value and holiness, the sacredness of the relationship in marriage. This is especially clearly visible in our time, when the institution of the family has been devalued, as the poet said: “Love is overturned, dirty laundry.