Shelf editors talk about books that can help you understand what is happening or endure despair . Poetry, prose, non-fiction: about all this - in the new episode of our podcast .
Elizaveta Podkolzina and Yuri Saprykin talk with the poet and writer Oksana Vasyakina about her second novel, The Steppe . The book is dedicated to her trucker father, stigmatized illnesses, and the virus of masculinity that has infected society .
"Shelf" opens a new season of podcasts - and changes the rules a bit . Elizaveta Podkolzina and Lev Oborin are talking to philologist Maria Nesterenko, who has just published her book Roses Without Thorns . Who were the first Russian writers and poetesses, what did they write about and how did they find their way in literature?