About the book “Curbing the Negative. Criticism of modernity" Modernity feeds on the energy of denial. Is it possible to separate its destructive effects from its constructive ones? In his new book, political philosopher Boris Kapustin argues that yes. Albert Sarkisyants looked at his argument and found that it seemed to hide an unwillingness to consider another, perhaps more monstrous, perspective.

Yuzhinsky circle in the diaries of Leonid Talochkin The publishing house of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has published a large volume of diaries of Leonid Prokhorovich Talochkin (1936–2002), a collector, curator, critic and chronicler of unofficial art in Soviet Moscow. Eduard Lukoyanov talks about only one of the motives of this extremely honest book - the formation of the Yuzhinsky circle of metaphysical realism.

From the book “Witches. Chronicle of 13 trials" Witch hunts are a timeless phenomenon, says researcher Marion Gibson. We publish an excerpt from her book dedicated to Aleister Crowley’s friend, Catholic minister and demonologist Montague Summers. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarity, violence and lies.

Interview with anthropologist Alina Lapushkina As you know, there are so many different peoples in Africa that not all of them can be reached by researchers. Alina Lapushkina, an anthropologist and employee of the Institute of African Studies, was lucky: a little over ten years ago she visited Ghana twice, and then, based on her research, she wrote a book about the childhood culture of the Avatime people. At the request of Gorky, Lev Voloshin discussed this work with Alina Olegovna.

Fragment of the article by Olga Smirnitskaya “Sofya Sviridenko and her “Edda”” Sofia Sviridenko completed the first complete Russian translation of the Elder Edda, a remarkable monument of Old Icelandic poetry, in 1911 and planned it for publication. However, only the first part, “Songs about the Gods” (1917), managed to come out, and the second, “Songs about Heroes,” was considered lost for a long time.