I hear the voice of Alla Gutnikova: Alla conveys: and then only “I”. Here it is - a frame of literary reality and the unreality of what is happening to a living person inside house arrest, which is abstract for someone, with statements in the first person, wrapped in a third person. The voice sounds even.

This article is a translation of an excerpt from Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics. In the book, Mbembe reveals his proposed concept of necropolitics - the politics of death, a system with the help of which the state (sovereign) determines which people should live and survive, and who is not sufficiently comfortable in the status of living and therefore must die.

If you want to find a good girl, first find a good friend. * If a tiger is friends with cats, the tiger becomes a cat, if a cat is friends with tigers, the cat becomes a tiger. * Love is a magnifying glass of goodness. * A face is judged by its eyes. * No matter what you talk about, the most important thing always remains unspoken. * If your friend is an optimist, you become happier. * A fool always needs to blush. * You should pay more for what you need.

Unfortunately, Gilbert Chesterton is known for his detective stories. But he was also a Christian figure. Just look at his works “Orthodoxy”. Also, I think it’s worth saying that Gilbert was friends with the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilyov. This was a man of paradox. A big and fat man who was always late, loved to tinker with children and until the very last days of his life retained an amazing ability to be surprised by the world around him.

Krylov V.V. The version based on explosion-technical examination data was confirmed / V.V. Krylov // Investigative practice / USSR Prosecutor's Office. All-Union Institute for the Study of the Causes and Development of Crime Prevention Measures. - M.: Legal literature, 1983. - Issue 139. - P. 76 - 85. Source: https://naukaprava.ru/catalog/435/736/5490325/74638?view=1

In the modern world there are two paradigms: the Dictatorship of the Sword (Junker) and the Dictatorship of Matter (Burgers). The dictatorship of the Sword is the power of the Aristocracy. This dictatorship is based on tradition, religion and hierarchy. This also includes the Monarchy of the times of L'Ancien Régime, that is, before the French Revolution. The term “Dictatorship of the Sword” was used by the Spanish conservative Juan Donoso Cortes. Any state needs a layer of managers.

...Mikhail Zuev’s new novel “A Sad Song about Vanchukov,” published in AST, again and again opens long-closed topics, asks questions and makes diagnoses. In terms of genre, is a novel of education possible today, and is the family genre an epic or not? Ethically, is it even possible to describe history from a “family” point of view?

The name of Rudyard Kipling is known thanks to The Jungle Book and the scandalous poem “The White Man's Burden”. He is considered persona non grata for his views. He openly supported British colonial policies towards India and Africa. But he was also a believing Christian. Kipling is the heir of Christian culture, who proclaimed an alternative world, fundamentally different, incomparably better.

Illustration — Gera More Ales woke up at the moment when his old "Pazniakphone" of the first model literally burst from the alarm clock. "Like in our village, everyone is a little bit drunk," - the stereo speaker could not stand Volsky's mischievous voice in Zet and simply produced a cacophony that resembled noise - a rather contradictory musical style.

18+ These translations should have been released a couple of months ago, in the month of August, where they belong. But maybe there is something right in the fact that they are coming out now, at the end of October, when we all so desperately need a letter from August, arranged with dried roses. The letter is like a promise, an assurance that summer will repeat itself, and there will be room in it for boredom, and for memories, and even for nightmares in the stuffiness of summer sleep.

18+ Translation of a chapter from the book by pioneer of queer theory Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick “Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire” (1985). In the presented text, Sedgwick gives an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of homophobia and its terrorist strategies in the context of male homosociality, asks the question of who can benefit from homophobia, and gives supporting, very entertaining examples from the history of the English Gothic novel.