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The New Literary Observer was launched in 1992 as the first post-Soviet journal devoted to literature. Since its inception, the journal has become the leading Russian interdisciplinary publication dedicated to Russian culture in a global context.
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
- articles on the problems, or the history, of the liberal arts and sciences;
- articles devoted to various aspects of the cultural history of Russia and Western Europe;
- unique archive documents (literary texts, letters, memoirs);
- articles, reviews, interviews and essays on issues of contemporary literature;
- thorough bibliographies of works of fiction and the liberal arts and sciences;
- chronicles of scientific and creative life.
contents:
EPISTOLARY CONNECTIONS OF RESEARCHERS AND THE PRODUCTION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
- Dmitry Arzyutov, Laura Siragusa. From the Compilers
- Dmitry Arzyutov, Sergei Kan, Laura Siragusa. Res Publica Literaria of Franz Boas, or How to Build Transnational Anthropology with Letters
- Igor Kuznetsov. Difficulties and Collisions of the Work on the Corres- pondence of Scholars from the Circle of Franz Boas (Ad Marginem)
- Sergei Alymov. The Second Marxism: The History of the Edited Volume “Problems of the History of Pre-Capitalist Societies” in Letters and Documents
THE LITERARY CANON AND WOMEN’S WRITING
GENNADY AYGI: AT THE BOUNDARIES OF SPEECH
ANTHROPOLOGY OF STREET VIOLENCE IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Guest Editor: Boris Kolonitskiy
- Vladimir Buldakov. Revolution or Riot, Class Struggle or Pogrom Hooliganism? View from Today
- Vladislav Aksenov. “The Red Woman is Coming”: Women’s Pogroms During World War I (From Base Emotions to Sociopolitical Violence)
- Boris Kolonitskiy, Konstantin Godunov, Konstantin Tarasov. Revolution or Hooliganism? Contemporaries’ Interpretations of St. Petersburg Street Violence in July 1914
- Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Samosudy in Petrograd and the Russian Revolution, March 1917—March 1918 (transl. from English by Anastasia Evnushanova)
- Mark D. Steinberg. Hooligan Stories: Street Violence, Street Emo- tions, and Street Morals in Odessa and Bombay in the 1920s (transl. from English by Stanislav Khudzik)
“DESIRING-MACHINE”: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SCRIPT FOR THE FILM STALKER
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS: ARCHEOLOGY OF PHILOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
- Anna Nuzhdina. A Voice Resounding in the Void (Review of the book: Barskova, Polina. Soskreb. Stikhi voyennykh let. Kniga Sefer, 2023)
- Alexander Markov. Locked House of Existence (Review of the book: Bordunovsky, Mikhail. Osen’ na ostrove Saturn. Samizdat, 2024)
- Denis Larionov. About Those Who Are Escaping and Overcoming (Review of the book: Kononov, Nikolai. Noch’, kogda my ischezli. Individuum, 2022)
- Alexander Ulanov. Between Person and Myth (Review of the book: Tavrov, Andrei. Gimnazistka. Knigi AT, 2024)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Feodor Nikolai. Cultural History and Social Studies of Happiness (Survey)
- Marina Zagidullina. History of Literature as a Social Institution (Review if the book: Bdovin, A.V. and K.Y. Zubkov, eds. Instituty literatury v Rossiyskoy imperii. HSE University Publishing House, 2023)
- Sergey Fokin. Marcel Proust’s Contre Sainte-Beuve: Contra aut pro? (Review of the book: Proust, Marcel. Essais. Édition publiée sous la direction d’Antoine Compagnon, avec la collaboration Christophe Pradeau et Matthieu Vernet. Gallimard, 2022)
- Sergey Sapozhkov. “Invisible Magnitude” under the Magnifying Glass of Modern Criticism (Review of the book: Penskaya, E.N. and O.N. Kushchova, eds. “Nevidimaya velichina.” A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin. Teatr. Literatura. Zhizn’. HSE University Publishing House, 2024)
- Alexander Chantsev. Selin, contra et pro. (Review of the books: Kamin- ski, Hanns-Erich. Selin v korichnevoy rubashke, ili Bolezn’ nashego vre- meni; Lepetit, Patrick. Puteshestviye na kray merzosti. Lui-Ferdinand Selin, antisemit i antimason; trans. Y. Guseva. Chernyy kvadrat, 2023)
- Alexey Pavlovskiy. Do Comics Need Literary Theory? Comics Studies and a “Marxist” Apologia of the Graphic Novel (Review of the book: Geczy, Adam and McBurnie, Jonathan. Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel. Rutgers University Press, 2023)
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. The Cooks’ Revenge: Representations of Domestic Work and the Fate of Soviet Power (Review of the books: Klots, Alissa. Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women’s Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor. Cambridge University Press, 2024; Cucuz, Diana. Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR. University of Toronto Press, 2023)
- Kirill Maslinsky. On the Culture of Work with Data in Philology, or the Role of Open Data Depositories
- Pavel Glushakov, Andrey Dmitriev. E.S. Bulgakova and L.Ya. Ginzburg in the B.F. Egorov’s Library
- New Books
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Nikolay Poselyagin. Collaboration, Сonflict, Self-Reflection. Interna- tional Conference “Theories and Practices of Literary Mastery: ‘Teacher and Students: Continuity and Competition’” (HSE University, Moscow, September 15—16, 2023)
- Aleksandra Kasatkina, Mikhail Sergeev. Questions of Paratextology: The Meaning of Fields in the Organization of Information. Inter national Research Conference “Around Text: Para-, Meta-, and Other Marginalia” (Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, October 19—21, 2023)
- Yaroslava Zakharova. Guilty Pleasure: The Rhetoric of Shame and Guilt in Russian Culture. International Conference “Guilty Pleasures: Shame, Hypocrisy, Representation” (“Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie”, Institute of Russian Lite rature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, November 13—14, 2023)
- Karina Razukhina, Adel Yusupova. Autofiction in the Context of Modernity: Theory and Practice. Round Table “Autofiction and New Autobiographical Practices in the Russian-Speaking Space” (Moscow State University, February 24, 2024)