Criticism

“You need to write for children like you write for adults, but much better. An adult, having stumbled upon a bad book, will shrug his shoulders and discard t...

It is extremely popular in the media to announce the top five, ten, or hundred most popular songs, performers, actors, etc. In this series of publications, w...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space S...

The book contains compelling scientific criticism of the views of their predecessors on the work of Ilf and Petrov. According to the author himself, this boo...

In the NB section there is a large article by the publicist Alexander Pumpyansky (1940) “The Secret of the Mockingbird. The feat and crime of Harper Lee." He...

“Thank you, gentlemen. I am very glad that we met, because the fate of Vertinsky, like no other fate, reminds us of the impossibility and tragic unnecessaryn...

“The lecture is dedicated to the work of the Russian classic Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, who suffered most from the fact that in Russia there was...

“I have never approached the subject of presentation with such timidity, since the topic sounds very blasphemous. The fear of any researcher precisely before...

“We, modest school teachers, have a much more decent and familiar classroom audience for talking about Russian classics, and in general, to be honest with yo...

“Ilf and Petrov have recently left active reading, as it seems to me, for two reasons. The first is that the older generation knows them by heart, and we are...

“Hello, dear friends! I admit, I take on this topic with some joy, because usually, when you start talking about someone beloved by everyone, you immediately...