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The Past, the Present and the Future of Hieroglyphic Writing
by Andrei Lan'kov

Grand ideas, terrors, genocides, and ecocides dissolve in the thick of time. Linguicide destroys civilization – its culture, its memory, its internal clamps and its deepest external ties. Hence one of the major contributions towards the future that our contemporaries can make is the adoption of a careful attitude to language on the hairpin turns of history.

Will Japanese Writing Survive in the Third Millennium?
by Yevgeny Mayevsky

What is Japanese writing? Is it a precious heritage or a quaint anachronism? What do the Japanese think of their writing? Will they preserve it or discard it?

God's Sculpture Garden
by Bella Gliner

Why do people take photographs? Why does the number of those who can "watch for light" for hours to take a picture of some rare bird or a branch of some curious tree grow day by day? Bella Gliner, author of the God's Sculpture Garden vernissage, has her own opinion about the place of photography in the cultural process. Her concept rests on the photograph album as a whole, rather than on the separate picture.

Shekhina and Sakina
by Sharif Shukurov

The Temple is impossible without the Path to it. If the Path is right, it leads to the Temple. Each religion, however, endues its Path to the Temple with distinctive energy, meaning and significance. Sharif Shukurov considers the main aspects of pilgrimage in the three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The Invented Man
by Jasper Griffin

We know little about the real Pontius Pilate. But even the two-thousand-year history of inventing him reveals our continued and persistent wish to obtain a full-blooded, historical, earthly antipode to Jesus of Nazareth.

The Man from Nowhere
by John Sturrock

The famous French writer and politician Andrй Malraux could well compete with Munchausen in telling tall tales about himself. But fortune favored Malraux. He dreamt of becoming a legend and his dream came true.

Indro Montanelli. «I Don't Have Any Masters»
by Ferdinando Castelli

Indro Montanelli was one of those writers thanks to whom newspaper journalism remains a lofty occupation even in our days.

An Urbane Scholar in a Wilderness of Tigers
by Robert Irwin

Today when one hears quite frequently the fashionable and rather unintelligible word "multiculturalism," it's high time to remember true multiculturalism – intensive, mutually enriching cultural exchange between different civilizations which lasted throughout the whole previous century.
The remarkable Orientalist Albert Hourani had no small share in this vast historical process.

Take What You Need
by Ronald Radosh

In the 1960's, fans of Bob Dylan compared him to Beethoven. It was predicted he would gain a place in the pantheon of American culture beside Louis Armstrong and George Gershwin.
Try to listen to his songs today. Well, but that was a different era… And now try to take away everything Bob Dylan contributed to contemporary music. So there you are!

Art Rock: Unfading Light or Appendix of Rock Culture?
by Vladimir V. Khoros

Not completely understood both by critics and the general public, refusing to compromise with the commercial model of arranging musical life, ceasing its actual existence at the peak of its rise, art rock music nevertheless survived. Art rock not only made an invaluable contribution to world culture by enriching it with wonderful musical compositions. Art rock showed the way that anyone who aims to create true works of art should take.

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