Flag. 2022. No. 8

This number of "banners" was conceived as an instant picture of modern Russian literature, scattered in different cities and countries. We introduce readers to the new verses of the Urals Alexei Kudryakov, St. Petersburg Andrei Krasilnikov, Muscovite Dmitry Tonkogonov and Andrei Polyakov, who lives in Simferopol, and the end of the novel by Tatyana Chernysheva "daughter of the traitor", two stories of Veche Kazakevich, sent from Yuri Petkevich " The door in the sky "and in the code" jam from Padalitsa " - a string of minimalist short, often in one or two phrases of maxims and aphorisms Alexei Alekhin.
The cycle of Mikhail Epstein "Philosophical cases" and placed under July, which were started in the USSR, were brought closely against the prose, Andrei Hales, Anatoly Korolev, Alexandra Melikhov, Elvina Moroz, Alexei Slapovsky, which was started in the USSR. The focus of many authors of the August number is the writer"s fate: the already mentioned Elvina Moroz talks about meetings with Yuri Dombrovsky, Sergey Gandlevsky reflects about Alexander Galich, Irina Zorina-Karyakina reminds of the sixties-Marxist Lena Karpinsky, Alexei Konakov focuses on the analysis of the life path and poetry of Pavel Ulitina, and Sergey Chuprinin with a cycle of essays "martyrs" announces his future biographical dictionary "Thaw: Actors".
And, of course, our authors, as usual, speak of new books and new events in the cultural life of the country. The study of Gleb Morus "Osip Mandelstam: Fragments of a literary biography" becomes for Bogdan Agris the reason for talking about art strategies in a totalitarian society. Alexander Markov in the next "Sweetings" shows how the latest Russian literature is covered in academic magazines of the first half of 2022.
As for the review section of the magazine, it is extremely diverse. Valery Otyakovsky is represented by the two -volume “Assembly of the poems" Oleg Yuryev, Dmitry Bavilsky leafing through the pages of the novel by Alexander Sobolev "Shadow behind the right shoulder", with the innovations of the poetic book series, they left. They remained "Vera Kalmykova, Kirill Yamshchikov, analyzes Alexander Stesin’s novel" Troy against all ", while Alexander Markov talks about Philip Dzyadko’s novel" Radio Martyn ", and Tatyana Sperystenova about Sergei Medvedev’s novel “Running Man". Particular attention in the journal is paid to the literature of Non Fiction - the collection of memoirs about Mariette Chudakova (Igor Harichev), to study the problems of literary translation in Ilya Vinitsky "Translations" (Ivan Kurill), and the next issue of the Vishnevetsky Dictionary of Change (Olga Balla) Matilda Ulyanova tells what is happening in the laboratory of the chittas of modern drama "Ruporbatch.
And the August number ends, as always, the "cursive of Olga Ball", where this time it is about the essays of Oksana Timofeeva, the philosophical traverse of Elena Kosilova and the diary of the self -knowledge of Alla Gorbunova