British playwright, screenwriter and director Tom Stoppard died on November 29 at the age of 88. In the 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which catapulted him to worldwide fame, he rewrote Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of minor characters. And 23 years later he directed the film of the same name with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, receiving the Venice Golden Lion for his debut.

The Jeffrey Epstein case is not just the case of a criminal, it is a failure of the American elites of the 21st century, it is a story of unloved girls who were let down by their parents and “the people running everything.” This is a column by Peggy Noonan, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. We publish a translation of its text. We're still thinking about Jeffrey Epstein. I first wrote about him a few days after his death on August 10, 2019.

China has become one of the main importers of works of art; the local market is not enough to satisfy high demand. At the same time, the interests of buyers diverge: wealthy private collectors prefer foreign masterpieces and are reluctant to invest in compatriots. The state, on the contrary, actively buys works by favored court artists for government residences and museums.

I. Once upon a time, even before Covid, Ivan Chunevich Memetyev was friends with the homeless man Makarych. They sometimes drank vodka on benches and generally appreciated each other. During quarantine, Makarych died. What was left of him were two movable properties. 1. The book of the writer Belkovsky “Repentance”. 2. Batman costume - a homeless man walked around the inflamed Moscow in it. Where and from where Makarych got this ancient costume is unknown.