Excerpt from Wilhelm Hauff's book "Excerpts from the Memoirs of Satan" Wilhelm Hauff is known throughout the world for his fairy tales, however, besides them, the German romantic who died in his youth had other works - including the novel in fragments “Excerpts from the Memoirs of Satan,” recently published for the first time by the Russian publishing house libra. We publish a short excerpt from it.

About the book “Detroit History. The formation of informal property relations in a depressed city" Anthropologist Claire Herbert's book on Detroit is a lyrical yet analytically rigorous exploration of how social order is reassembled in a ruined city as state support resources are exhausted. Read more in Nata Volkova's review. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarity, violence and lies.

Life of E.-T.-A. Hoffmann's ten optional facts Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann would have turned 250 years old on January 24, it’s scary to think. On this occasion, the editor of Gorky re-read the book by Rüdiger Safransky, dedicated to the most terrible and at the same time funny romantic, in order to select from it ten seemingly meaningless, but in fact important, if you think about it, facts.