Criticism

Classical art, approaching a completely new historical era, does not find its Genius, and gradually ceases to be a modern way of understanding current events...

In 2012 ago, at the Ayu-Dag Constellation festival, we gave a report “How to write combat.” We rummaged through the archives and looked: there was a plan out...

Modern gospel scholars give us new portraits of Jesus every spring - just in time for Easter...Is it true that Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene? Was Jes...

“...It is difficult to suspect Herzen of dislike for Europe. After all, this is precisely one of those Russian people who, in the words of Dostoevsky, “have ...

“The free, fiery muse, the inspiration of Pushkin, drives the dictators of our Parnassus and the sedentary critics of our literature into despair. Poor! As s...

“The upcoming season of art exhibitions promises to be rich and varied. Almost all of our famous artists create new paintings, most of which will appear eith...

“Something strange is currently happening in the premises of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. In the already cramped premises of the museum and ...

In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, gamblers, a repo man and a disappear...

What is happening to modern Russian literature? Why is there so much controversy surrounding it? And why do “the best Russian writers” sometimes turn out to ...

“We do not at all take upon ourselves the important task of giving an account of this new great work of Gogol, who has already become highly respected by pre...

“While some two poems, placed in the first two books of “Notes of the Fatherland” in 1839, aroused so much interest in Lermontov from the public, established...