— random words about literature, culture, or arts
This is scientific nonsense. A demon can't live in water anyway. What would he be doing in the water?
Karel Capek "The War with the Newts"
Latest articles
The Tyranny of the Camera
Slavoj Žižek meets Suzan Sontag when discussing the nature of Photographed Experience
Ukrainian literature in English
Find out where you can read the English translations of Ukrainian literature
What's hidden in a Chicago janitor's room?
Learn about one of the most interesting representatives of 'outsider art' — Henry Darger
Stéphane Mallarmé, the anti-symbolist
Learn about how semiotic theories of Owen Barfield and Charles Sanders Peirce make Stéphane Mallarmé an anti-symbolist
The Odyssey — a literary and axiological revolution
Learn about how Homer's Odyssey redefines what it means to be a hero
The World through the Prism of Kabbalah
Learn about the Kabbalistic outlook on the world and the way Jewish mysticism influenced the 20th-century ideas
Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" on the Intersection of Literature, Art and Cinema
Discover the influences of Impressionism, Cubism, Stream of Consciousness and Cinema on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway"
The Darkness of Human Unconscious in Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
Learn about one of the most haunting images of what is hidden in the depths of human souls - William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
What is aestheticism?
Learn about the influence of aestheticism on modern culture and the way Oscar Wilde contributed to it
