“Waiting for August” is a collection of essays and stories by art critic Arkady Ippolitov (“Only Venice”, “Especially Lombardy”), the first book of which was published ten years ago also in the “Seance”. One can talk about Ippolitov’s short aesthetic prose for a long time: each Ippolitov’s publication in periodicals is unique - in NoMi, in Russkaya Zhizn, in Seance, there is Ippolitov everywhere ... A connoisseur of the eternal and a subtle observer of modernity. His writing is distinguished by irony and freedom, depth and lightness, if it is aestheticism, then it is free from prejudice and free from snobbery | good taste and fine style do not have to go hand in hand with arrogance, and Ippolitov's book is another brilliant confirmation of this.