Ideal school: what is it? Article 1 Konstantin Polivanov Publication date: January 16, 2001 What is an ideal school , and whether it can exist in principle is not even an abstract question: any sane person understands that a school, like any specific institution, cannot be ideal. And at the same time, naturally, every parent, sending their child to school, has a certain value scale by which he evaluates the acceptability or unacceptability of a particular educational institution.

Andrey Nemzer Literary today. About Russian prose. 90s Dear reader! You can take part in the discussion by writing, which will be published on this page. Nemzer is cool!!! 16.1.2001 2:56 The tormentor of Russian literature Moscow, Russia. Regarding the non-functionality of a negative review, I do not agree.

Hunger 9 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: January 16, 2001 From the beginning - “following the footsteps of our performances.” Not the past , about which I received a lot of admonishing letters (and you, Abram, are right, but Sarah is also good), with which I completely agree (I mean, all this is in vain), but the year before last , where about Igor Gergenroeder.

" Tyinography of autumn shifts the copper skin of Egypt, / opening the archers, resinous faces, / rotting bandages of trains in the valleys, / quiet rainbows of animals at midnight." Get there, see? But "vision is also a linguistic procedure, the process of description, distinguishing." We only have words, and go for words - with their help. See = describe. But what is the description? Non -name, but recreating.

On its volume, composition, internal device and design (a solid stylish cover with a wandering in fragments of the female body Punktum), this collection could well claim the title of the final one. Probably, he was conceived by the author, which included in him both his program books in recent years and selected early things.

Ten films of the week: January 15-21 To the premiere of the American film "To be John Malkovich" Among the many daily speculations around the "crisis of cinema", conversations about how, in fact, a progressive cinema in the present and future should look. Meanwhile, it is born before our eyes, and while new films are increasingly forcing critics to pronounce with different intonations the definition of “Antikino”. It is from this "Anti" that such a necessary creative energy emanates.

Osip Mandelstam found himself in good society Lisa Novikova Publication date: January 16, 2001 The 110th anniversary of the birth of Osip Emilievich Mandelstam is celebrated in Moscow. Love for the poet united the audiences of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU), the Moscow City Duma and Lubyanka Square. At the same time, the Mandelstam Society celebrated its tenth anniversary.

Magazine reading: issue twenty-three Inna Bulkina Publication date: January 16, 2001 The last of the last millennium, “ New World,” completed this cycle hand in hand with its favorite (they are also called “permanent”) authors, the first of whom is Galina Shcherbakova, and the second is Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This is only a strange couple in appearance, but for the concept of the current “NM” it is quite suitable.

From the editorial office . "Century" is closed. The full text of the interview with Gleb Pavlovsky, promised to readers , is the result and at the same time the beginning of new projects. We do not yet know what to do, we are in the interval, we are confusedly aggressive. In a word, the entrance is free, the century is open.

From the radishes of those who were awarded to the Pushkin Museum yesterday, the Triumph’s large bonuses and youth grants have been directly related to the three characters (the playwright Eugene Grishkovts and the “satirist writer” Evgeny Shestakov, I reluctantly delete my heart). The poetess Yunna Moritz (he was congratulated by Vladimir Gubailovsky in today's “NG” with sour mine). The poet and essayist Gleb Schulpyakov (the article about his work is announced in the "NG" of tomorrow).