Magazine "Banner" No. 2. 2018

Among the authors, the rooms are primarily paid attention to the persistent "banners". This is the Patriarch of modern literature Leonid Zorin, represented by a monologue "under the curtain" and the story "Camera Dunz". And the artist, director, Pushkinist Vladimir Recipe with a new cycle of poems. And Alexei Makushinsky, whose books in recent years have invariably pass through the filters "banners", with a fragment from the new novel "Stopped World". The famous philologist Alexander Zholkovsky offers the readers to his next witty and instructive vignettes, George Davydov is the lyrical story "Portrait of the grasshopper in the field", and Evgeny Bunimovich is the memories of Cyril Kovalji, who is called by several generations of the most noticeable poems that are most noticeable today.
But the wonderful Ural poetess Maya Nikulina appears on our pages, it seems, for the first time. Like Anton Utkin, after a long pause, going to readers with a cycle of stories (or maybe with a novel in the short stories?) "Middle -aged people". The debut for "banners" include the lyrics of yesterday"s student Alexei Petrov, and Irina Zhukova’s story “scatters the seeds of the roll”, and the detailed cycle of Leopold Epstein’s poems "cross out the extra".
Criticism in February is represented by an article by Pavel Rudnev about the documentary theater popular in our age and Yulia Podlubnova"s notes on the marginal novelty of the second half of 2017. The conversation about the new products of our cultural scene is continued by the reviews of the books of Mikhail Kolibel, Yuri Kazarin, Alexander Bushkovsky, Viktor Kachalin, Evgenia Berkovich, reviews of the biobiblics dictionary "Russian literary critics of the XX century", about the anthology of modern transformations of the “Monument” Horace and about the collection of materials about life about life And the work of Felix Rosiner, as well as polemic notes about the universal attention of the film Boris Khlebnikov "Arrhythmia"