Magazine "Banner" No. 1. 2018

The yard is winter, and the January number of "banners" is intentionally composed as a motley spring bouquet. These are the lyrical verses of Mikhail Aizenberg, Andrei Polyakov, Konstantin Gadaev, Mikhail Kukin. And the diary entries of Alexander Kabakov "Short Course, or an incomplete collection of thoughts". And the final chapters of the autobiographical narrative "what cannot be forgotten", where Boris Zaborov tells how he, the famous Russian artist, lives and what is thought in Paris, in the circle of the European cultural elite.
In the prose of the room they talk about the present, its pain and hopes. Or directly - like Mikhail Shevelev in the series of stories "Positive Plot" and Maxim Osipov in the documentary story "Children of Dzhankoy". Either missing today"s impressions through the magical crystal of Russian history and personal memory - like Leonid Yuzefovich in an uncomfortable story "Colonel Kazagrandi and his grandson" and Vladimir Berezin in the "historical" (or, perhaps, still "phantasmagoric"?) wand".
The past does not let us go, as evidenced by the huge block of poems by Boris Slutsky from the archival finds of Andrei Kramarenko, and the investigative case of D. S. Usov, and notes of Vladimir Korkunov, extracted by Tatyana Neshumova from the FSB archives, on the fields of the "Savelovsky cycle "Osipa Mandelstam.
But journalism and criticism in the January "banner" are deployed to current reality. Konstantin reflects on, “why do we have no image of the future”? Pavel Rudnev shares fresh theatrical observations with readers. Nikita Eliseev, Evgeny Ermolin, Anna Zhuchkova, Elena Ivanitskaya, Roman Senchin, as it is at the beginning of the new calendar cycle, indulge in "literary dreams", trying to answer the question of how domestic literature will change in the coming years and what artistic meanings and forms will be It is most in demand in it. "
The focus of the “Znamensky” reviewers new books by Viktor Pelevin, Anna Arkatova, Dmitry Bykov, Kirill Korchagin, Anna Sushchinskaya, Tatyana Flavitskaya, Jonathan Harris. The pages of the magazine "Nosorog", together with readers, is led by Alexander Markov, and Vladimir Aristov, Marina Kuzicheva, Andrei Tavrov and Tatyana Graus compare the impressions that the exhibition of Georgio Morandi, recently ended in the Pushkin Free Art Museum