“Paper Radio” is a new book of short provocative essays by journalist Dmitry Gubin: the same one, appreciated by Dmitry Bykov, who hosted the “Temporarily Available” program with Dmitry Dibrov, who gave a comparative analysis of the shelling of Nevsky Prospekt during the siege live on Vesti FM and the activities of Valentina Matvienko as governor of St. Petersburg... After which he stopped reporting on Vesti and Temporarily Available. This time the author turns to the period of Russian history marked with the hashtag #pathetic - that is, between 2008 and 2012. Fear of revolution, high oil prices, low self-esteem, flaming clericalization, primitivization of scientific knowledge - in a word, if Gubin had lived in the era of Vlas Doroshevich and Dmitry Merezhkovsky, he would have had three people to figure out.