Alexander Ivanov - about Gennady Shpalikov Today marks 50 years since the death of film screenwriter, director and poet Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974). At the end of summer, as part of the Stuffy festival, Alexander Ivanov gave a lecture “Russian Guy Debord: Gennady Shpalikov and Soviet existentialism” - we are publishing a text version of it, prepared by Lena Eka.

A passage from Leonid Zorin's book "They will not do anything with us" On November 3, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous playwright, screenwriter and writer Leonid Zorin marks. By this date, “New Literary Review” has issued a collection of his works of different years, united by the theme of the relationship between the artist and the authorities. With the permission of the Gorky Publishing House, it publishes an excerpt from the memoir novel of the Avansen.

What to ask in book Criticism of technooptimism from the Nobel laureates, an essay on the abolition of the abolition culture and the first biography of Camus in Russian: on Fridays, the editors of Gorky talk about the most interesting new products of the week - and this Friday is no exception. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.