Criticism

“Criticism frightens many - although it is true that it teaches us little to write and that models and examples are much more powerful, although it is also t...

“Inexorable death swung its terrible scythe - and there was no one kind person in the world!.. The dear poet, sincere friend, defender of the oppressed, comf...

Here is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag that made her famous. Sontag was perhaps the first to raise the question of the absence of an impenetrable wal...

Dmitry Bykov - prose writer, poet, famous publicist, believes that with the 20th century, a millennium of conversations and understanding of “damned issues” ...

The great novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” seems simple and understandable, but this is deceptive. In fact, his text contains many mysteries, the meaning of wh...

Correspondence with publishing houses, editors, individuals. Character names have been changed.

The book contains articles by Boris Groys about the work of Ilya Kabakov, written between 1980 and 2008. During this time, Kabakov moved from albums and othe...

“It was a long time ago, a very long time ago, but still it was... In St. Petersburg, the salon of a great enlightened lady, Zoya Yulianovna Yakovleva, was f...

“Several years ago, Maurice Decobras, a novelist translated into dozens of languages, and who gladly calls himself “Maurice Anatolyevich,” did me the great c...

“An interesting book, an interesting person... And, perhaps, there is no shortage of jokes. What a joke, and a terrible, even tragic one. War...”

“We will not dwell on what has already been written and said about Aldanov. Why repeat what is known: that in his novels, historical and everyday, he is tale...

“Much has been written about how former Russian dignitaries, officers, public figures, artists, painters and writers live in exile, but a small, albeit small...