Many thanks for your proposal to publish the novella by L. Chukovskaia under the brand of our publishing house. I haven't received the second half of the novella yet since I don't yet have the 84th volume of Novyi Zhurnal. As soon as I receive it (this will be any day now)...

About Chukovskaia: my publishing budget is not impersonal but distributed between individual authors and books. I, alas, cannot, for example, replace one book with another, and even publish a book by scrimping on printing costs for other books. Chukovskaia's novella would...

I am not a fan of Akhmatova’s Requiem: I think, with the exception of a few lines, it is forced, and more importantly, too declamatory: you don’t really believe it. For me, Akhmatova exists mainly thanks to her “New Year’s Ballad...

About Bulgakov’s works: there is no play “Ivan Vasil’evich” in his 1962 collection published by Iskusstvo. But Bulgakov’s Collected Works in several volumes were being prepared for publication in Moscow...

Thank you very much for Arzhak’s books! I managed to read only one of the stories – “Hands.” What a horror! But how much sincere humanity in the portrayal of the former Cheka officer. There is the image of the entire offended Russian people in him...

I have read the article in “Literaturnaia Gazeta.” I am surprised that it can actually produce an impression on anyone here, since it contains a ludicrous phrase suggesting that our publishing...