Preface Before starting a series of articles about Italy, I want to tell you that my first trip there took place thanks to the Pokrovsky Gate cultural center. In the fall of 2013, as part of the traditional Pokrovsky readings, a literary competition “The Time of Personality: Identity, Otherness, Universality” was announced. The story I submitted at this competition won first place and the main prize - a week in Italy. A true literary journey that I could only dream of!

One of the founders of the improv group Musica Elettronica Viva , Alvin Curran, gave this interview to the German free improvisation researcher Sabine Feist.

Day one. Rimini resort Initially, we planned to fly from Moscow to Rome, from there by train to Cesena, meet with Gianfranco and continue the journey with him. How did it happen that our “literary adventure” began in the resort of Rimini? It's simple. We had already bought air tickets, but then, by chance, Dima came across a current travel package: flight, transfer, week’s accommodation - and all for a price less than just a Moscow-Rome flight.

At the end of spring, a presentation of a new book of poems by Yulia Pivovarova “Noise” took place at the State Public Scientific Library of the SB RAS. This is the first book by the famous Novosibirsk poetess in more than twenty years. Previously, a collection of her poems “Shadow Side” (Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk Book Publishing House, 1989) and a fairy tale novel in verse “Hunter” (Moscow: Andrey Belashkin Publishing House with the participation of the Gileya agency, 1993) were published.

Project “Chlorella stasis. Visible water" The statements that water is an important resource of the planet, it must be clean, there must be a lot of it, that it is the basis of life, do not cause doubts or disputes. But this understanding of water is historical and due to certain modern circumstances. This relativity, however, does not cancel the desire to fetishize water again, to attribute it to unchanging and eternal values ​​- primary elements, as the ancients did.

Japanese short fiction in the 2010s: “literature of the cracks” Compilation, translation and introduction by Elena Baybikova (“Foreign Literature” No. 5, 2017) Modern Japan is gradually losing the features of a traditional society - there are no generally accepted standards in lifestyle, diet, or family life; they have been replaced by a variety of social norms and forms.

Mikhail Zaborov KUKUBRAK Excerpt from the book “Sadomoralism...” Cain and Abel brought gifts to the Lord, and the Lord looked upon Abel's gifts. “Agian steam locomotive!”, as the Jews say, is this why you need to kill your brother?! But the fact is that before us are contenders for the patriarchal throne. Abel is chosen, but Cain also has ideas on this issue. And when he makes his brutal amendment, he’s cursed?!

Theater named after Natalia Sats, June 27, 2017, 19:00. Director: Georgy Isahakyan. Albina Fairuzova (soprano), Yulia Makaryants (mezzo-soprano), Sergei Petrishchev (tenor), Mikhail Bogdanov (Guido). Conductor - Alevtina Ioffe. “Guido’s Exercises and Dances” (1997) by Vladimir Martynov is not the first time they have been performed in Russia, but the first time - in a stage version.

Interview with cyber art researcher Michael Hessel-Mial, who works on meme-based digital poetry. Maxim Koval: Hello, Michael! Tell me a few words about yourself - what interests you and what you do. Michael Hessel-Mayal: Hi, my name is Michael and I make digital meme-based poetry. Last year I completed a dissertation in comparative literature examining 20th-century American poetry in relation to media theory, and I'm currently working on a book that will include a series of my meme poetry.

Introduction and translation by Marina Boroditskaya (“Foreign Literature” No. 1, 2009) Lewis Carroll's poems (except for those included in "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass") are not very well known in our country. Meanwhile, the famous author of both “Alices” began in literature as a humorous poet.

On July 3, 2017, at “ Jean-Jacques ” on Nikitsky Boulevard there will be a presentation of Kirill Korchagin’s new poetic book “All the Things of the World” (New Literary Review publishing house). We are publishing a fragment of Galina Rymbu's preface and several poems from the book. Galina Rymbu. Inhabitants of the ruins (fragments) The key time for these poems is the 1920s-1930s: the involvement in them of those who live and write today is constantly emphasized.