Previous publications: For the first time in the history of the Russian Booker, the prize is completely devoid of any intrigue. To calculate the winner, it is enough to put two registers side by side: the list of nominees and the list of jury members. Tvardovsky and Terkin are not opponents of the post-October direct line. Not at all. They just cannot run out of it.

Postmodern literature: black cat in a dark room Michael Berube Publication date: July 4, 2000 He must confess to one crime.

Falconry: first review, dedicated to falconry, nostalgia, love of reading, madness, high words and school books Yana Sokolova Publication date: July 4, 2000 There are people who write books. In the last century they were the “rulers of thoughts.” There are people who write about people who write books. They were the “rulers of thoughts” in the century before last.

"Propaganda and Dreams" is a nasty exhibition. It makes you think about what you don’t want to think about - national differences and ideological sabotage. And the whole point here is in the damned American fashion for justice, in some kind of manic, prosecutorial, alien need for Russian people to get to the very essence of everything and announce their verdict to the whole world, in a crazy love of truth. It's a country of never-resigning juries.

Sometimes they come back... Vitaly Portnikov Publication date: July 4, 2000 The triumphant victory of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in the parliamentary elections held in the country was one of those expected: on the eve of the vote, all observers predicted the MPRP would receive a majority of votes, and the Mongolian Social Democrats, who had recently left the ruling coalition, were even going to enter a new coalition with the winners from the MPRP.

Why we believe music should be free Larisa Miller Publication date: July 4, 2000 This is not a speech against copyleft on the Internet. This is an attempt to understand how the landscape of "music delivery" has changed over the past three decades and where this widespread belief in music can be downloaded and shared without paying a cent to the musicians who wrote and played the songs comes from.

Russian Magazine / Net-culture / Seine www.russ.ru/netcult/nevod/20000704.html Seine. Issue 77 Nastic Gryzunova Publication date: July 4, 2000 Review of current online events and publications As usual, good intentions led me to God knows where. The only result of serious and thoughtful attempts to somehow structure reality was complete confusion in my head and complete disorientation (which is generally my hallmark), as well as a whole lost week.

Looking at my senior colleagues traveling around Salzburg and Bayreuth in the summer, at first I was somehow embarrassed to write about the Göttingen Handel Festival - a chamber (a week long), little-known festival, where, having passed the session early, I was going for the second time in a row. And the second time I was convinced that there was nothing to be embarrassed about, because, having visited Göttingen once, I realized that it would not be limited to a one-time visit.

What does the coming day have in store? Yes, actually, nothing special Henry James. Ambassadors / Transl. from English M.A. Shereshevskaya. - M.: Ladomir; Science, 2000. Irina Kaspe Publication date: July 4, 2000 Readability is a distinctive feature of “litpamyatnikov’s” texts; in this sense, as in all others, “Ambassadors” is a more than organic continuation of the series.