for a series of literary profiles samizdat batenka.ru explores the biography of writers, starting from a single word
Did the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, behind which Joan Rowling hid, help her get rid of the burden of Harry Potter
Shalamov's story — the classic story of a great writer in the Soviet Union — he had no power over his own works, nor over the image in the eyes of a few readers
How Leonid Andreev created the gospel of Judas and influenced several generations of authors
