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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 BOOK AS AN EVENT. Maria Stepanova. Holy Winter 20/21. Trans. by Sasha Dugdale New York: New Directions, 2024.
- Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Paperno. From the Guest Editors
- Katharina Raabe. How Maria Stepanova’s poem Holy Winter 20/21 was Published and Received in Germany (translated from English by I. Paperno)
- Olga Radetzkaja. The Re-Making of the Poem (translated from English by I. Paperno)
- Sasha Dugdale. On Coming Home (translated from English by M. Falikman)
- Irina Paperno. Reading Holy Winter 20/21 in the Summer of 2021
- Luba Golburt. The Closet/Coffin of Poetry: What is Preserved — or Buried — in Holy Winter 20/21
- Irina Shevelenko. The Book of Losses: The Running Plot in Maria Stepanova’s Holy Winter 20/21
- Mark Lipovetsky. The End without an Ending (Close Reading of a Poem)
- Andrew Kahn, Stephanie Sandler. Discourses of Love in Sviashchennaia zima 20/21 (translated from English by D. Kharitonov)
- Maria Stepanova. On Being Wrong
AFTER THE DEFEAT. FOR THE 200 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECEMBRIST REVOLT
- Oleg Proskurin. From the Guest Editor
- Vadim Parsamov. N.I. Turgenev and M.S. Lunin: Two Perspectives on the Nature of Decembrism
- Oleg Proskurin. In hopes of glory and good will (Pushkin’s «Stanzas» in the Political Context of the post-Decembrist era)
- Tatyana Kitanina. Was there a «duel»? Around Katenin’s poem «The Old Story»
SUB ARBORIBUS MUNDI: MYTHOPOETICS ACROSS THE AGES. Guest Editor: Aleksandr Panchenko
- Alexander Panchenko. Mythopoetics as a Form of Collective Imagination
- Sergey Zenkin. Mythology and Magic, Two Models for Poetics
- Anna Gumerova. The concept of myth in C.S. Lewis’s works
- Alexander Panchenko. Cyber Gods: The Theory of «Principal Indo European Myth», Information Theory, and Russian Philology
- Anna Razuvalova. In Search of Authenticity and Underlying Struc tures: Constructing Literary Traditionalism (from 1960s to 2010s)
FROM THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN FUTURISM: IN SEARCH OF ITS SOURCES
READINGS AND INTERPRETATIONS
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
- Olga Balla. Crawling Being Grows Wings (Review of Polina Barskova* Sibyls, or Book of Wondrous Transformations. St. Petersburg, 2025)
- Aleksandr Markov. Triest as a Palimpsest, or the Ship will never arrive (Review of S. Solovyev Bodily Light. Frankfurt a/M)
- Aleksei Porvin. Game for real (Review of S. Moroz Heavenly Bits. Мoscow, 2025)
- Aleksandr Ulanov. Life of Loss (Review of V. Korkunov Reed on the Inside of the Earth. Almaty, 2024)
EXOTICA, ADVENTURE, AND “OTHERS”
- Evgeny Savitsky. Invigorating and enfeebling exotica: towards a his tory of crises of colonial literary narratives (Review of Bergmann F. Schreibweisen des Exotismus. Berlin; Boston, 2025; Hutter E. Eska pade und Beherrschung. Paderborn, 2024).
- Konstantin Yerusalimsky. «One’s own» and «The Other»: New Readings, New Questions (Review of Images of the «Other» in Russia, 1547–1917. Boston; St. Petersburg, 2025).
- Veronika Vysokova, Aleksei Popovich. «Britain» through the eyes of Russian intellectuals of the 17th century (Review of N.A. Boldyreva William Camden’s Journey on Britania from London to Moscow (from the history of AngloRussian cultural ties of the XVI–XVII cen turies). Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2024)
- Anna Novikova. The Catalyst and Mirror of Cultural Transformation: Television in the Art of Eastern Europe (Review of Slavica Tergestina: European Slavic Studies Journal. 2023. No 30, 31: Television in Eastern European Literature, Art and Media (from 1960s to 2020s))
- Mikhail Odessky. The Problems of Studying Vampiric Discourse (Review of K. Freydlin Vampires: Origins and Resurrections: From Folklore to Count Dracula. Moscow, 2024)
- Tatyana Misnikevich. The Musical Codes of Russian Literature: Searching and Decoding (Review of L. Pild Musica Aeterna in the Poetry of Late Romanticism and Modernism. Tartu, 2024)
CHRONICLES OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Kirill Istomin, Ekaterina Melnikova. Conference «Anthropology of Indeterminacy: Life in Transitional Periods» (New Literary Observer, Yerevan, Armenia, European University in St. Petersburg, October 24–25, 2024)
- Irina Kopchenova. Conference «“Time of Changes” in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions» (Institute of Slavic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, Center «Sefer», December 1–3, 2024)
- Natalya Naumova. Round table «Global Reconstruction: Constituens et Naturans» (Berlin, Institute of Global Reconstruction, November 10–11, 2024)
- Timur Khayrulin. International conference «Daniil Kharms: poetics, history, contexts» (F. M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanities Academy, St. Petersburg, May 16–17, 2025)