A fragment of the book of Alexander Livergent “Somerset Moem. King Lear of the Cote d'Azur " In the summer of 1917, Somerset Maugham, the already famous writer and secret agent in the service of the British crown, went to Petrograd covered by Troubles in order to convince the temporary government not to leave the war with Germany. Maugham spent two and a half months in Russia, leaving it on the eve of the Bolshevik coup. Nevertheless, London decides to use it for new missions in eastern Europe.

About the book by Kiran Setia “Life is tougher. How philosophy helps you not to despair in difficult times" In his book, ethicist Kiran Sethia argues that living a good life is more important than being happy, and one cannot fold one's hands, even though life's hardships cannot be avoided. At the request of Gorky, Alexey Zygmont weighed this work in the genre of philosophical self-help and found it normal - even too normal.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Dmitry Zimin Enlightener Prize has published a long list of the 17th season, which includes 25 works. This is stated in a press release received by the editorial office of Gorky. The combined long list for 2024, including books from both categories, “Humanities” and “Natural and Exact Sciences,” looks like this: ⦁ Alexey Alekseenko. Sex with scientists: sexual reproduction and other mysteries of biology. - M.: Alpina non-fiction, 2024.

Mark Altshuller - about the "Voinarovsky" Ryleyev and Poltava Pushkin Two hundred years ago, Russian readers got acquainted with excerpts from Kondraty Ryleyev’s poem “Voinarovsky”, written on behalf of the nephew of Mazepa, who recalls in the Siberian link about Ukraine’s unsuccessful attempt to gain independence. Four years later, Pushkin created Poltava, telling about the same historical events, but in a completely different political vein.

About the book of Richard Kantillon "Experience about the nature of commerce" In Russian, the work of Richard Kantillon finally came out - “Gentleman of the sharp mind”, an entrepreneur and a lost classic of economic science. What is interesting to his ideas for the modern reader, says Ruslan Khaitkulov. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The 2024 Enlightener.Translation Prize has decided on its long list, which includes 25 popular science books published abroad and translated into Russian. This is stated in a press release received by the editorial office of Gorky. The longlist of translated books this season looks like this: ⦁ Thomas Reinertsen Berg. Theater of the world. History of cartography / trans. from Norwegian: Evgenia Vorobyova; editor Sergei Kokurin.