How the soldier Ivan Chonkin was born Vladimir Voinovich planned to make a career as an honest, but quite mainstream Soviet writer, but due to his temperament, everything ended up not going according to plan and turned out to be a much greater success than could have been expected. Yuri Kulikov’s new book “The Rock” is dedicated to the life and creative path of this wonderful writer - we publish a small excerpt from it.

About Gael Fay's novel “Jacaranda” After the fratricidal massacre between close nations ends, people need to continue to live. The novel “Jacaranda” by the French-Rwandan writer Gael Fay tells how difficult this task is, using the example of Rwandans, witnesses and victims of the genocide, or their children, who only learned about the monstrous details many years later. About this - in the material of Tatyana Shcherbina.

282 theses on the book “Hyposubjects” by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer Hyperobjects have been replaced by hyposubjects, believe philosophers Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer. It is difficult to argue with them, but Eduard Lukoyanov took on this impossible task - and won. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarism, violence and lies.