In Abdulla Khakimov’s story “A Assignment for Life” it is worth paying attention to one minor detail. The fact is that the main motive of this book is not the heroic feat of the Soviet intelligence officer, but betrayal. In the story, a young philologist and poet, Mirza Sadykov, goes as a nationalist refugee to Iran, where, through a series of tricks, he gains the trust of the nationalist leader in exile, Mullah Sadretdin Khan.

Inadequacy can be demanded for various reasons. People are interested in it in order to better feel their normality, understand the non-trivial possibilities of adaptation and learn from the mistakes of others. In addition, human nature - especially in the growing up stage - craves colorfulness and strong affects.

Lies are an integral part of our life. Depending on the situation, days of the week, phase of the moon or state of health, we lie a huge number of times a day. And it is very difficult to control the width of the flow of false information that we fill other people with. But it’s even harder to catch that almost invisible, treacherous lie that we, closing our eyes, allow to take up residence in our consciousness.

Freud wrote a lot about sexuality and gender. It is not my purpose to give here a brief sketch or history of his ideas or the ideas of his followers. My task is to explore the contribution that Freud himself and his school made to the social theory of gender. Accordingly, I will begin my analysis not with the Oedipus complex or with an analysis of femininity and masculinity, but with his general theoretical considerations about the relationship between the psychic and the social.

photo: Nastya Oblomova I remember that my grandmother was a very religious person. True, she had her own faith, like the majority of the Russian people.

What we love for is always something exceptional - a flaw, a special charm or a tangle of reasons, some “not everything”. This applies to both people and art. "First you dream, then you die" Cornell Woolrich Noir for me is, first of all, a unique combination of images and meanings, which can be called noir aesthetics in a philosophical sense. Moreover, what is most intriguing is not what changes, but what remains invariably preserved in noir.

The Guild of Masters of Literary Translation and the Foreign Literature magazine express their deep gratitude to Dmitry Zimin for his many years of support for domestic culture, education and book publishing and join the demand to cancel the decision to recognize the Dynasty Foundation as a “foreign agent.” OPEN LETTER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RUSSIAN BOOK COMMUNITY IN DEFENSE OF DMITRY ZIMIN'S DYNASTY FOUNDATION.

Books are needed not only to read them. In some cases, they are like beacons in the dark, designed to attract those who have eyes. Therefore, it has always been extremely important for me to observe the books that people read. Because of this, I often took a book, precisely in order to show onlookers on the subway my rare and interesting book. I even took Bataille’s “Inner Experience” on a date with D. in 2008.

In the story by N.A. Kiselev’s “Night Visit” had several editions; the first, 1963, was published in the popular “Library of Adventure and Science Fiction” series. But the second one, the one I bought, was published in Tashkent in 1965. Before understanding these publications, I looked at the cover and tried to understand what the book was actually about.

Jurate Sprindyte Challenges of post-censorship freedom Translation by Maria Chepaityte The high pace of change that Lithuanian literature took after the country gained independence, and comprehensive changes: qualitative, substantive, and structural, is not comparable to any other period in the existence of our literature: after 1989, joyful and painful changes began, predetermined by the collapse of totalitarianism.