Criticism

“I read “On the Eve” with enthusiasm, but it shocked me unpleasantly... It is clear that now, with a greatly changed spirit of society, with an open desire f...

Jules Verne talks about the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. The stories “Murder in the Rue Morgue”, “The Stolen Letter”, “The Gold Bug”, the story “The Tal...

A person whose profession is the Word writes not only long novels. He writes everything and constantly: blogs, notes, reviews, comments, stories. He cannot s...

This book contains film reviews by writer and publicist Roman Grachev, aired on radio and published in the media over several years. The tapes of the so-call...

The book includes works by Sergei Dovlatov unknown to the general reader, his letters to friends, memories of his friends, photographs.

Continuing the author’s column of the writer and mathematician Alexander Melikhov (1947) “National cultures and national psychoses” - another essay “Second-c...

Alexey Polyarinov writes prose (the novel “Center of Gravity” was published in 2018), translates texts by David Foster Wallace and writes notes about his fav...

“Tatarism was not in vain for the Russian people. For two centuries, the camp of a great nomadic people stood in our fields, and when the nomads left, on the...

“I am not a fatalist, but one sectarian belief arouses in me a gloomy confidence: death takes away a person when everything, both good and bad, that life cou...

“It’s heavy and vague in a person’s soul. Like a cat that was taken in a bag far from home and released in the middle of an unfamiliar road, he stands in lif...

“Mr. Chekhov chose a very suitable title for his new small collection of stories. In general, they really resemble twilight, when the fading light does not g...

“Before the theater doors even close, art exhibitions begin, the number of which grows every year, then concerts, more concerts, more exhibitions. And all th...