Essay Alexei Penzin about his departed teacher On August 9, Valery Alexandrovich did not become. Today, on the 40th day after the death of one of the main Russian-speaking philosophers of the turn of the century, Gorky publishes the essay of his student Alexei Penzin, dedicated to the memory of the teacher. 1.

Three strange books from the darkest nozzles of one library The fight against corruption in the Russian twee picks, an instructive parable for users of "Odnoklassniki" and a noticeably worsened version of Lovecraft. Library worker Ivan Schulz continues to share the most strange books discovered by him on duty. Kirill Kazantsev. Insatiable. M.: Eksmo, 2013. Episode "Avengers. War of disagreements " The theme of corrupt deputies is traditional and even canonical for modern Russian culture.

Julia Stutotina about Daisy Dunn's book “In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny” The letters of Pliny the Younger are already nearly two thousand years old, and they are the only source of our knowledge about him and the people surrounding him, among whom was his uncle Pliny the eldest and famous historian Tacitus. It would seem difficult to write a biography of such a person and say something new, but the British anti-people Daisy Dann brilliantly coped with this task.

New items to pay attention to Anthropological guide in convents, modern piracy of the southern seas, Pavel Pepperstein’s memoirs, geography of post -Soviet identity, as well as a reliable script of the Apocalypse, which we launched ourselves with our own hands. David Walles-Wells. Uninhabited land. Life after global warming. M.: Individuum, 2020. Translation from English by Mikhail Finogenov. Content Imagine that in your eyes, but a certain muck happens outside the zone of your direct influence.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The novel Troubled Blood, released this week, again gave rise to accusations of transphobia against JK Rowling, who writes a series of detective stories under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. A critical note about the new novel was published , in particular, by The Telegraph newspaper. The Spectator magazine came out in defense of the writer.