Conditions of Speech. Kommersant Weekend 2007–2022

How did Vladimir Sorokin erase the boundary between utopia and dystopia, Ivan Shishkin show us an ideal Russia, Clint Eastwood debunk American myths, and a single TV trilogy save three wrongly imprisoned people?

This book features texts that were published in the magazine Kommersant Weekend over a period of 15 years, describing both cultural transformations and our own. Grigory Dashevsky, Maria Stepanova, Yuri Saprykin, Grigory Rezvin, Anna Tolstova, Igor Gulin, Zinaida Pronchenko, and other authors discuss the books, films, art, music, and people that defined our view of the world around us.