The collection “Cursed Critics” brings together under one cover several unique authors who look at the modern literary process in Russia without biased enthusiasm and rose-colored premium glasses, evaluating texts according to the Hamburg score. Their sharp, demonstrative, often sarcastic analysis of the works included in all the “short lists” and declared almost the pinnacle of verbal creativity, makes us reevaluate many of the “masterpieces” imposed on us and think about how honest official criticism is with readers. This collection is the first, unparalleled attempt to generalize an alternative view of our new literature. The book will be useful to philologists, school and university literature teachers, as well as everyone who wants to independently understand which modern Russian writers are really worth reading and promoting, and which it is enough to know that they are laureates of the Big Book or the Booker.