READING “LOGOS REVIEW OF BOOKS”

The essay covers focal topics, genres, and structure of the first issue of the Russian newspaper “Logos Review of Books”. The periodical is conceived as a review supplement to “Logos”, the leading post-Soviet academic journal on philosophy, culture studies and human research methodology. In terms of format it is an analytical monthly periodical covering not only Russian and translated books (fiction, nonfiction on humanities), but also products of new media, cultural events, and ongoing debates on problems of education, technologies, etc. The genre structure is represented mainly by critique and reviews, while burning issues are discussed in few essays, interviews, and comments. In comparison with academic style of “Logos” (however, in recent years it has been somewhat diluted with “essayism” and provocation), this format is closer to the popular scholarly criticism, and the publication obviously claims to be an intellectual trendsetter, while orienting itself on the foreign samples of book reviews (“London Review of Books”, etc.).