Notes about a mysterious foundling of the 19th century In 1832, a scientific report entitled “Information on Kaspar Hauser” was published in Nuremberg in two pamphlets, written by Hauser’s guardian Georg Friedrich Daumer, one of the most extravagant German thinkers of the 19th century. This text largely shaped the myth of Hauser the Foundling, a “man in the state of nature” who supposedly first came into human society at the age of sixteen.

Marianna Shakhnovich - about what "scientific atheism" is Marianna Shakhnovich is known primarily as a specialist in the history of ancient philosophy - primarily Epicurus and epicurestvo. The adjacent sphere of her interests is the atheistic thought of different eras. Not so long ago, Marianna Mikhailovna, in collaboration with Ekaterina Alexandrovna Tereyukova, published a book dedicated to the “scientific atheism” - a very specific phenomenon of the Soviet academic environment.

About the book of Renate Lahmann "Camp and Literature" The publishing house "New Literary Review" has released the study of Renate Lahmann, dedicated to the poetics of camp literature. One of the key problems of the book is the ratio of documentary and artistic in the testimony of both the most famous authors and unfamiliar to a wide audience (Julius Margolin, Karl Steiner, etc.). At the request of Gorky, Konstantin Mitroshenkov tells about this publication.

About Alexey Polyarinov’s novel “Cadavers” The third novel by writer and translator Alexei Polyarinov, “Cadavers,” was released this spring and received rather contradictory reviews. Some reproach the book for its plot incompleteness, others note its piercing tragedy and original eerie atmosphere. Read about the genre duality and unobvious advantages of this novel in the material by Artem Roganov.

Fragment of the book of Oksana Mutieva "The everyday life of the Dagestan woman" What is the patriarchal family way of the Caucasian family in the 19th century, why did Russian officers believe that the wives of the highlanders are slaves of their husbands, and how did family relations in mountain auls actually arranged? Read about all this in an excerpt from Oksana Mutieva's book “Everyday life of a Dagestan woman”.