About the novel by Denis Beznosov "Territory of Memory" Trying to understand the meaning of current events, turning to the experience of past years is a respectable lesson, and it was no coincidence that the literature on the Second World War has gained such frightening popularity in recent years. So the writer Denis Beznosov, deciding to write a traverse novel about walking through Vienna, inevitably searches for traces of the past in this city, but finds only phantom reminders about them.

From the book “Ordinary People. 101st police battalion and the “final solution to the Jewish issue” ” Historian Christopher Browning discovered in the archives a court decision in the case of the 101st German police battalion, who participated in mass reprisals against Jews in Poland. The case is attached to many unexpectedly frank testimonies that allow you to see genocide through the eyes of its performers - and it is a little better to understand how such things are generally possible.

About the book by Alexander Betz “Nero. Madness and reality" We are all familiar with Nero as a psychopathic tyrant and megalomaniacal amateur actor - but isn’t this image largely the fruit of the creativity of later authors who had their own reasons for not liking the ruler? Alexander Baetz offers his own version of the biography of one of the most odious Roman emperors - and at the request of Gorky, Roman Korolev tried to figure out what the German antiquarian’s version can teach us.

Interview with translator Sergey Ermakov In October last year, the Publishing House Vladimir Dal published the book “Establishing Power. A treatise on alternatives to the New Age ”, Opus Magnum of the political philosopher and activist Antonio Negri (1933–2023). The translator Sergei Ermakov explained to Gorky why the work published in 1992 is relevant today, including in the Russian context.