Bruce Sterling. Zeitgeist (spirit of time).

Bykov and others Mikhail Edelshtein Publication date: May 29, 2003 It so happened that my acquaintance with the short list of the “National Bestseller” began with the novel “My-My” by Vladimir Yaremenko-Tolstoy. And the further I read it, the clearer the penitential beginning of the future article took shape in my mind: they say, forgive me, good people, for criticizing Booker , Apollo-Grigoriev, and underestimating living classics, and - long live the mainstream!

Will Russia win the sixth generation war? Dmitry Danilov Publication date: May 29, 2003 Possible options Conversations about the future of Russian military reform, easily promoted by the media and military analysts, have already acquired the character of a kind of public mantra.

Inside out Sergey Soloukh Publication date: May 29, 2003 She was also kind to me than with the idiot Mort a credit. The twenty-seventh of May this year marked one hundred and nine years since the birth of Louis-Ferdinand Céline . A tall, blue-eyed, blond man who looked least like a Frenchman. That's the genotype. Nature. Features of the psychophysical structure of the body. If the thread is eighteen, then the bolt is certainly twenty-eight.

Music in Saratov Alexander Tsereteli Publication date: May 29, 2003 Since the Obinovsky Music Festival in Saratov, it strictly and annually begins on May 18 and lasts two weeks. The current one is already the sixteenth. It’s hard to call it “the next” - its organizers are so good at always putting something new into an established, tested and proven form of musical performance.

Non-existent poetry Vladimir Gubailovsky Publication date: May 29, 2003 “ In the end, anyone can say: we have literature or we don’t have literature , even without picking up books. Almost anyone can also evaluate a work that was accidentally purchased, received as a gift, or borrowed from a library. and it’s not for nothing that excellent reviews or “literary portraits” are obtained not only from professionals, but also from who indulge in this matter ...

My first teacher or The problem of terror in elementary school Denis Yatsutko Publication date: May 29, 2003 There are so many touching songs and poems about the first teacher ! So many stories and films! For some reason, it is believed that the first teacher is like first love or first blood in a fight, no...

From now on, questions about the current state of literary criticism are answered by: Dmitry Bavilsky , Sergei Kostyrko and Sergei Soloukh . Dmitry Bavilsky Most often, the difference between paper and online criticism lies in the area of ​​quality. The network is democratic and accessible, here you can publish anything you want. Therefore, there is a lot of graphomania, unprofessionalism and just all sorts of insanity.