BOOKS

Every week we'll publish a short book review. We believe that literature can provide the necessary perspective for today's world. New releases or old works, fiction or nonfiction—in this section, you'll find books we want to share with you because we consider them important.
Victor Pelevin "Cool"

Victor Pelevin "Cool"

October 10 2024
"Even a forester doesn't know what happens in the forest at night. And the brain isn't just a forest. It's a mysterious jungle. And it's not necessarily ours."
Nikolay Kukushkin “One palm clap”

Nikolay Kukushkin “One palm clap”

“If we perceive the brain as matter moved by information through time, then…

October 10 2024
Hannah Arendt, "People in Dark Times"

Hannah Arendt, "People in Dark Times"

"'Dark Times'"... are not identical with the monstrosities of our century, which are marked by horrific...

October 10 2024
Edmund de Waal, "The Hare with Amber Eyes: The Hidden Legacy"

Edmund de Waal, "The Hare with Amber Eyes: The Hidden Legacy"

"Netsuke is a small, sharp flash of precision. And that's why it deserves..."

October 10 2024
Peter Flamm "Me?"

Peter Flamm "Me?"

“I’m at the door, I open it, it’s pitch dark, there’s no one, maybe…

October 10 2024
Cormac McCarthy "Suttree"

Cormac McCarthy "Suttree"

"That year there were locusts. They howled in the green trees,…

October 10 2024
Vera Polozkova "Lost and Found"

Vera Polozkova "Lost and Found"

start rewinding: the house takes out the flame and grows like a candle...

October 10 2024
Mikhail Eisenberg, "Don't Touch Us: Poems"

Mikhail Eisenberg, "Don't Touch Us: Poems"

This world, growing wild before our eyes, was protected by our meekness and our…

October 10 2024
William Faulkner, "Light in August"

William Faulkner, "Light in August"

«Он кричал, что имеет право убить нигера. Почему – не сказал, до того распалился и ополоумел,…

October 10 2024
Jesmyn Ward, "Sing, Ye Restless, Sing"

Jesmyn Ward, "Sing, Ye Restless, Sing"

"I washed my hands every day, Jojo. But the damn blood never...

October 10 2024
David Lynch, Christina McKenna "The Dream Room"

David Lynch, Christina McKenna "The Dream Room"

“I remember mostly summer, because winter meant…

October 10 2024
Walter Isaacson "Elon Musk" 

Walter Isaacson "Elon Musk" 

"Musk quickly became bored at Queens. The university was wonderful, but he didn't have to work hard in class."

October 10 2024
Marina and Sergey Dyachenko "Vita Nostra: Collecting the Pieces"

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko "Vita Nostra: Collecting the Pieces"

“From a submissive fool, never growing up, never overcoming himself, never...

October 10 2024
Asya Volodina "Protagonist"

Asya Volodina "Protagonist"

Asya Volodina "Protagonist" - M.: AST, 2022 It's hard to say what...

October 10 2024
Alexander Ilichevsky, "Narrow Sky, Wide River"

Alexander Ilichevsky, "Narrow Sky, Wide River"

“For me, home is not a country, not a state, not a city—…

October 10 2024
Maria Stepanova "Focus"

Maria Stepanova "Focus"

Maria Stepanova "Focus" Moscow: New Publishing House, 2024 Maria's new book...

October 10 2024
Ellen Newbould La Motte, "On the Ebb Tide of War"

Ellen Newbould La Motte, "On the Ebb Tide of War"

"Thanks to skillful surgery and professional care, some of these patients...

October 10 2024
Helena Pobjarzhina "Other Notes"

Helena Pobjarzhina "Other Notes"

"You're constantly getting lost. When you live such a long, monotonous life, every now and then..."

October 10 2024
Timur Valitov "Corner Room"

Timur Valitov "Corner Room"

“You need to wash, air out the room, change your underwear, although all this is useless: this is…

October 10 2024
Anton Sekisov "Vaginov's Room"

Anton Sekisov "Vaginov's Room"

Anton Sekisov, "Vaginov's Room" Moscow: Alpina non-fiction; Bookmate, 2023 If...

October 10 2024
Samuel Butler, "Erewhon; or, Beyond the Mountains"

Samuel Butler, "Erewhon; or, Beyond the Mountains"

"But how incredibly lucky I am! If I had reached the pass..."

October 10 2024
Bram Stoker's "The Mystery of the Sea"

Bram Stoker's "The Mystery of the Sea"

“Everything was calm—so supernaturally calm that the rarest sounds…

October 10 2024
Oksana Kirillova "Viland"

Oksana Kirillova "Viland"

“Submission, elevated to the rank of virtue, is the essence and basis of dictatorial…

October 10 2024
Ivan Filippov "Mouse"

Ivan Filippov "Mouse"

 “For the first few hours since the start of the epidemic, television was silent as usual or…

October 10 2024
Alexey Konakov "Tabia Thirty-Two"

Alexey Konakov "Tabia Thirty-Two"

“Chess is our cultural code, something that unites us all…

August 6 2024