Konstantin Milchin - about new and old novels by Alexei Ivanov Alexey Ivanov has published a new novel, “Vegetation,” a dark post-apocalyptic fantasy about the near future, in which some kind of catastrophe has occurred, the Southern Urals are overgrown with a mutant forest, and people have become ossified to the last limit.

About Ismail Kadare’s novel “General of the Dead Army” The recently deceased writer Ismail Kadare has long been recognized as a classic of Albanian literature, was widely known in Europe, received the International Booker Prize and was nominated for the Nobel Prize more than once. And only in Russia they practically did not remember about him, although the magazine version of his novel “General of the Dead Army” was published in Russian in the late 1980s.

From the book “Rhythms of History” by Alexander Shubin In a collection of texts from different years, historian Alexander Shubin appears not only as a left-wing theorist, but also as a caustic commentator on modern realities. We present to your attention a fragment with criticism of post-Soviet television, in the spirit of the old school. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.