How Vladimir Sorokin erased the line between utopia and dystopia, Ivan Shishkin showed us an ideal Russia, Clint Eastwood debunked American myths, and one television trilogy saved three innocent prisoners? This book contains texts published in the Kommersant-Weekend magazine on over the past 15 years and describing the transformation of culture and ourselves. Grigory Dashevsky, Maria Stepanova, Yuri Saprykin, Grigory Revzin, Anna Tolstova, Igor Gulin, Zinaida Pronchenko and other authors talk about books, films, art, music and people who have shaped our view of the world around us.