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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:
THE LEGACY OF KATERINA CLARK. Guest Editors: Valery Vyugin, Jason Cieply
PART 1. IN MEMORIAM: IN MEMORY OF A COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND
- Sheila Fitzpatrick. In memory of a friend: Katerina Clark (June 20, 1941– February 1, 2024) (trans. from English by Tatiana Pirusskaya)
- Michael David-Fox. Katerina Clark’s Ecosystem (trans. from English by Venya Gushchin)
- Evgeny Dobrenko. Katerina Clark: Literary History as a Device
- Caryl Emerson. Bakhtin Through Katy’s Eyes (trans. from English by Tatiana Pirusskaya)
- Jinyi Chu. «First and foremost, we must see connections, not points» (trans. from English by Tatiana Pirusskaya)
- Eric Naiman. The Networks of Katherina Clark (trans. from English by Tatiana Pirusskaya)
PART 2. IN CLARK’S FOOTSTEPS
- Masha Salazkina. Katerina Clark’s legacy beyond her intentions: Comintern, ocean, cosmopolis
- Daria Ezerova. Discovering Moscow with Katerina Clark (trans. from English by Tatiana Pirusskaya)
- Vikentiy Chekushin. Back to the Third Rome: The Concept of Katechon in the Journalism of Soviet Writers during the Great Patriotic War
- Alexey Shvyrkov. Kinship, Orphanhood, and Empire: National Allegory and Socialist Realism in the Novellas of Chingiz Aitmatov
NON-ANNIVERSARY: FOR THE 132ND ANNIVERSARY OF A GENIUS AND «LATRINE CLEANER»
PART 1. MAYAKOVSKY: FROM PATHOS TO DEVALUATION
PART 2. IN THE SHADOW OF MAYAKOVSKY
- Leonid Bolshukhin, Oxana Zamiatina, Lyubov Baryshnikova. Mayakovsky the provocateur: the cases of the poets Georgy Echeistov, Sergei Malashkin, Lev Goldenov
- Oxana Zamiatina. About the possible addressee of V.V. Mayakov- sky’s poem «Marxism is a weapon, a firearm method. Use this method skillfully!» («Marksizm — oruzhie, ognestrel’nyy metod. Primenyay umeyuchi metod etot!») (1926)
- Lyubov V. Khachaturian. Blague... Black Plague? Requiem to Vladimir Mayakovsky in Alexey Kruchenykh’s workbook
- Vasilisa Šljivar. Echoes of Mayakovsky’s early work in Vladimir Kazakov’s prose?
MEMORY, EMPATHY, UTTERANCE: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF AUTOFICTIONAL PRACTICES
- Karina Razukhina, Alexey Masalov. From the Editors
- Hywel Dix. Autofiction, Colonial Massacres and The Politics of Memory (trans. from English by Mikhail Postnikov and Ekaterina Vakhrameeva)
- Tatyana Venediktova. «Songs of Myself» for the XXI Century
- Larissa Muravieva. Autofiction in the Hope of Empathy
- Karina Razukhina. All characters and events portrayed in this novel are not purely fictional: a rhetorical approach to comprehending autofiction
- Alexey Masalov. «A Way to Feel Alive»: The Hermeneutics of the Subject in Russian-Language Autofiction of the 2000s–2020s
POETOLOGICAL STUDIES
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
- Petr Kazarnovsky. Irreparable love for the motherland (Review of P. Kuznetsov. Conspiracists. St. Petersburg, 2024)
- Olga Balla. The Duel of Poetry and Politics (Review of I. Gulin Three Novels: Yulia Kim. Prohibition on Passing. Plucked Eyes. St. Petersburg, 2024)
- Aleksandr Ulanov. The Rough Expanse (Review of V. Kazakov Hard- to-heal Heaven: Prose, Letters. Мoscow; St. Petersburg, 2024)
- Aleksei Porvin. Arcades of the Voice (Review of N. Yavlyukhina Cicades of the Cold (A Diary of Observing the Climate). St. Petersburg, 2024)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Evgeny Savitsky. Tragic, but funny: The Tyrant in Aesthetico- Theorical and Literary Works of the 18th-21st centuries (Review of Nitschmann T. Ästhetiken der Tyrannis: Figurationen der Gewaltherr schaft vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Paderborn, 2025)
- Igor Kobylin. Intransmissible transmissibiltiy: Works of Art Between History and Becoming (Review of Emerling J. Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History. London; New York, 2024)
- Tatyana Venediktova. Affect in its Speculative Dimension (Review of Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions. Cham, 2025)
- Anna Shvets. The History of Literary Scholarship from a Techno-Institutional Perspective (Review of Guillory J. On Close Reading. Chicago; London, 2025; Guillory J. Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study. Chicago; London, 2022)
- Tatiana Misnikevich. «Russian Europeans» in Literature, Science, and Culture: The Succession of Generations (Review of K.M. Azadovsky, A.V. Lavrov. Russian Europeans. Andrei Bely – Bryusov – Voloshin – Zinaida Gippius – Gumlev. St. Petersburg, 2024)
- Galina Zalomkina. Anxious Dreams in Tianxia (Review of N. Isaacson Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction. St. Petersburg, 2024)
- New Books
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Olga Dovgy. Scholarly Feast «“Both Life and Death” in Bestiary- Emblematic Mirrors» (Russian State University for the Humanities, September 27–29, 2024)
- Vera Milchina, Inna Matyushina. All-Russian Conference «XVI Meletinsky Readings» (Institute for Higher Humanities Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, October 22–23, 2024)
- Dmitry Antonov, Dmitry Doronin, Anastasiya Zavyalova. All-Russian Conference «Representation and Cult: Sacred Images in Christian Traditions» (Russian State University for the Humanities, November 28–30, 2024)
- Alina Polyakova. All-Russian Scholarly Conference «Aleshin Readings». Panel «Phenomenology and Ontology of Values» and «The Aesthetic as a Value» (Russian State University for the Humanities, December 13–14, 2024)