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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:
NEW POETRY
EPISTOLARY CONNECTIONS WITH THE FIELD AND THE PRODUCTION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
- Nikolai Vakhtin, Elena Lyarskaya. Letters from the Field: Principles of the Leningrad Ethnographic School and Soviet Realities
- Maria Momzikova. Post-Fieldwork Letters: Soviet Scholars, Nganasan Correspondents, and the Co-Production of Anthropological Knowledge through Reciprocal Dialogue
- Svetlana Podrezova. “You Can’t Explain Everything in Letters” The Archive of Revolutionary Songs in Letters
ON THE PATH TOWARDS A “STATE” LITERATURE: INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES. Guest Editor Dmitry Tsyganov
- Alexander Dmitriev. The Sociology of a Transitional Literary Culture, or Soviet Again
- Valerii Otiakovskii. Memoirs about Vsevolod Meyerhold by Yuri Pertsovich
- Mariia Likhinina. Petrograd House of Arts as an Organizational Experiment of the War Communism Period
- Darya Moskovskaya. From the Union of Soviet Republics to the Union of Soviet Writers: The Institutional Collisions of the Produc- tion of Proletarian Literature in 1920s—1930s
- Alla Burtseva. Writers’ Brigade in the 1930s Turkmenistan: From the Journey to the Production of Literature
THE CANON REVISITED
ARCHEOLOGY OF PHILOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
POETOLOGICAL STUDIES
GENNADY AYGI: AT THE BOUNDARIES OF SPEECH
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. The Soviet “Literary Republic,” “Eastern Internatio- nal,” and Kemalist Turkey from the 1920s—1960s (Review of Current Research)
- Dmitry Kolchigin. (Non)fictional Stories before the Court of History (Review of the book: Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality. Peter Lang, 2024)
- Tatyana Venediktova. News of Literary Cognitive Science from the Southern Part of the World (Review of the book: Wentworth, Isabelle. Catching Time. Routledge, 2024)
- Valery Vyugin. A Book on Literature, Thieves, Crooks, Scoundrels, and the Soviet Empire (Review of the book: de Oliveria, Cassio. Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921—1938. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
- Valery Zolotukhin. Northern Sounds and Nighttime Voices (Review of the book: Safran, Gabriella. Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century. Cornell University Press, 2022)
- Igor Kobylin. “A Continuous Stream of Chance,” or the Political Economy of Francis Bacon (Review of the book: Bacon, Francis. Brutal’nost’ fakta: interv’yu Devidu Sil’vestru. Ad Marginem Press, 2024)
- Konstantin Lappo-Danilevsky. The Archival Gifts of Eretz Israel to Russian Culture
- Alexander L. Kleitman. “So, They Strangled Him After All...”: New Research into the Murder of Tsarevich Alexei, June 26, 1718 (Review of the book: Guzevich, Dmitry and Guzevich, Irina. Gibel’ tsarevicha Alekseya Petrovicha: 24—30 iyunya 1718 goda: versii, spory, realii. Evropeyskiy dom, 2024)
- Zhang Licheng. Post-Soviet Dramaturgy Through the Eyes of Chinese Researchers (Review of the book: Wang Lidan and Li Ruilian. Issledovaniye sovremennoy russkoy dramaturgii [1991—2012]. Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2016)
- New Books
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Alina Polyakova. All-Russian Research Conference “Transylvania Is Calling”: The Poetics of Elena Fanailova (Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian State University for the Humanities, February 17, 2024)
- Viktoria Mavrinskaya. International Conference “30th Big Bath Readings: ‘The Cultural Anthropology of Borders in Modern Societies’” (New Literary Observer, April 5—7, 2024)