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On the Subject of Moscow's Closed Bookshops
On the subject of Moscow's closed bookshops. Akademkniga on Vavilov Street did not survive the realities of life in the 2020s. Many will probably remember what a shock its closure was in 2019, later briefly interrupted by the shop's reopening. But in 2021, incidentally the Year
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
The Writers' Bookshop, opened on Kuznetsky Most in 1934 and untimely closed in 2022, is back in action!
Yes, it is now a somewhat different shop: a new style, a new interior, and no more second-hand department under the ceiling, but the old crystal chandelier has survived, and a cosy courtyard has appeared. It is gratifying that books will go on living within these walls
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · People
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master. The curators, Ildar Galeev and Kasia Denisevich, have for the first time tried to bring together what is usually scattered among museums and family archives: paintings, sketches
Art · Books · Society · Pop Culture
Christie's Creates a Separate Global Pop Culture Department
The auction house Christie's has created a separate global pop culture department, which will hold several sales a year and offer objects connected with cinema and television, music and musical instruments, sport, science and technology, natural history, fashion and popular design. Christie's spent several years studying
Cinema · Faith · Books · Society · Pop Culture
A scandal is brewing in American religious circles over Meryl Streep voicing Aslan the Lion
Greta Gerwig's film "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" is due to reach cinemas in February 2027. Clive Staples Lewis wrote seven books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" cycle, and since 1950 readers have bought more than 100 million copies of them. The talking
The East · NB! · Books · Education · Society
Chinese Teach-Yourself Manuals Rise to Second Place in Popularity in Russia
Coming Up · Moscow · Art · Books
"A History of Black" at the Ekaterina Foundation
The Ekaterina Culture Foundation on Kuznetsky Most has opened an exhibition, "A History of Black". Its point of departure is the book by the French historian Michel Pastoureau, who for several decades has been writing biographies of colours and has already published volumes on blue, green, red and
Books · Interviews · In the Press · Cinema · People
The Guardian has published a lengthy conversation with the writer Salman Rushdie, his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the director Alex Gibney
The attack on the writer took place on 12 August 2022 in Chautauqua, in upstate New York, where Rushdie was due to speak. Griffiths was at home in New York that morning and learned of what had happened by telephone from an acquaintance, the details reaching her only later through
Books · Mores · Humour
You must have decent, well-dressed children, and your children must in their turn have a good flat and children, and their children too must have children and good flats, and what it is all for, the devil only knows
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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…yesterday I met an acquaintance, a peasant woman, to whom I could not help remarking that she had changed…
…yesterday I met an acquaintance, a peasant woman, to whom I could not help remarking that she had changed… And she said to me: you too, my dear provider, have grown old, and plain besides. Though I might say, together with my late nanny: handsome I never was, but young
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