About the courage to call black black and white white. 2019 has been declared the Year of the Writer Daniil Granin in Russia, but, of course, that’s not why you should read his books. Answers to the question “why?” a lot, and most of them can be found in the book “The Last Notebook. Changeable shadows." (M.: AST; Edited by Elena Shubina, 2019). Almost half of the materials collected in it are published for the first time.