About the "bomb" - the most reliable comic book about Hiroshima Bomb is a Franco-Belgian graphic novel about the creation and first use of the most destructive weapons in the history of mankind. This comic, which has received many prestigious European awards, is now available in Russian through the efforts of the Polyandria publishing house and the House of Creativity Peredelkino, in which work was conducted on its translation.

To the 310th anniversary of the author of “The New Heloise” and “The Social Contract” We habitually rank Jean-Jacques Rousseau among the circle of French enlighteners, forgetting, however, that in fact he was originally from Geneva, decisively broke with the Parisian encyclopedists, and owed his lifetime fame primarily to the only novel he wrote, and not to philosophical treatises . And yet, he did no less to shape modern European culture than Voltaire or Diderot.

Fragment of Dan Hilie's book “Another story. Sexual and gender dissent in revolutionary Russia " Oxford historian Dan Hilia studied archives that became available only after 1991, and wrote the first voluminous study about what was the same -sex love in Russia on the eve and after the 1917 revolution. We publish a fragment of his book, dedicated to the discussion around the so-called processes of homosexuals, held in the early 1920s.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On Saturday, July 2, the Peredelkino House of Creativity near Moscow and the Alpina publishing group will hold a series of events under the general title “Like-Minded People.” Discussions, lectures and master classes with the participation of famous scientists and writers will be held in the White Hall and on the pond, according to a press release received by the Gorky editorial office.