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Seems like ages ago that I first heard the music of Ben Watt. In actual fact, though, it was only in 2014. The album was Hendra , his firs...

Чуть больше трех лет назад я писал об одном из любимых мест в Минске, недавно открывшемся книжном магазине Сон Гоголя . Я писал о том, что...

There are books which can never stay on the shelf. They could be obscenely slim and there could be a War and Peace sized gap in my bookca...

Is there another city that is abused and deified as much as Saint Petersburg? That exists between Alexander Kushner's poetry and taste...

Couples at jazz concerts... I have always preferred those who let the music do the talking. The piano does the romantic bit. The drums pro...

In Saint Petersburg, there is a certain gravitas to everyone and everything. It's not showy. It's inherent. 

Nothing stays with you like those empty streets in the first hours of early dawn as you are getting to the train station or else to the ai...