Criticism

Alexey Aleshkovsky - Afterword to the book of poems by his father, Yuz Aleshkovsky.

Feuilleton, real/story. There is obscene language. 18+.

“...Ek. Glaterman is the head of the copyright department of LitRes LLC. And she fucked, out o...

The experience of carefully reading a famous book.

‘I can’t imagine a nicer Christmas present’ Lionel Shriver, Observer

‘A passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature’ Allison Pe...

“The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoevsky” is the first true achievement of Vasily Rozanov’s talent, which brought him considerable fame. Rozan...

All that is in this book are texts. It is made up of them in the same way that wood shavings are made up of wood. And the metal one is made of metal. But thi...

An essay by contemporary British artist and writer Tom McCarthy is dedicated to the cult comic book series “The Adventures of Tintin.” Reading into the texts...

The Western Canon is the most famous and probably the most polemical book by Harold Bloom (b. 1930), Sterling Professor at Yale University, the famous Americ...

The collection contains works by Ian Larry, written by him before the war - a collection of short stories “Sad and Funny Stories about Little People”, the st...

“...We will not dwell in detail on the social likes and dislikes of Ada Negri, we will not examine the question of the duality of her spiritual world: the qu...

“...The main misfortune of all humanity, according to Mr. Menshikov, lies precisely in the fact that the vital energy accumulated in the depths of patriarcha...

“Among the motley crowd of “folk” types depicted in Ostrovsky’s comedies, one thing is missing: the most talented of Russian playwrights, who gave the first ...