“The Time of Politics” by the famous poet and essayist, author of many poetic and prose books, is a collection of his selected essays published in the online publication InLiberty.ru. Lev Rubinstein refers to his media prose as “an experience in periodical fine literature.” The criterion that the author followed when compiling the collection was whether the text could take on a new life in a new and responsible context, the context of a book. And it is up to the reader to evaluate it in its entirety. As in the very first book of his magazine essays, “Cases from Language,” published by Ivan Limbach, in the new collection Lev Rubinstein pays close attention to the words that create or distort reality.