About literary groups - in a theoretical key History knows many examples when poets and writers united in certain groups, gave them names and even composed manifestos emphasizing their uniqueness. Why did they do this? Is it possible to propose a typology of such groups that can, for example, explain the difference between a literary salon and a literary circle? And are such groups possible today? Read about this in Maxim Dremov’s material.

From the book "Ethics and animals. Introduction " American Laurie Gruen wrote a curious introduction into the problems of moral attitude to animals. At the heart is the analysis of semi -surveying situations from various philosophical points of view. We publish an excerpt in which the author offers to reflect on whether to prevent the lion from killing a child or not. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

Nikita Eliseev - about Erica Mann’s book “Barbarian School” Erica Mann, the daughter of a classic of German literature, published a book in 1938 in which she summarized the methods of Nazi propaganda aimed at the future of Germany - its children and teenagers. “The School of Barbarians” was published almost simultaneously in two languages ​​and was intended for two audiences - German and American.

About the film practitioners and film texts of Leo Kuleshov At the end of last year, the anthropologist, professor of Princeton University, Sergei Ushakin, issued the first book of the fourth volume of the Formal Method in the publishing house, the extensive and representative anthology of the texts of Russian and Soviet modernism and avant -garde. One of the heroes of this volume, along with Boris Arvatov and Evgeny Polivanov, was the classic of directing and movie theory Lev Kuleshov.