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The Lifeboat It’s only the third issue of The Lifeboat, but the writing process already amazes me. My previous essay was a child of spontaneity. This quality is inherent in me and it is present in many areas of my life, so now in writing. After one spontaneous essay, I got a spontaneous idea to write another one. In this essay, I am going to dig a bit deeper into how spontaneity works for me and what role curious learning plays in it. While I am adjusting the oars, do you fancy for a drink? Subscribe On drinking and myths

Filmmaker Vitaly Mansky on Artdocfest and Russia on Film For more than 30 years Mansky has championed documentary filmmaking. Mansky with Mikhail Gorbachev Masnki-doc.com Film director Vitaly Mansky is usually behind the camera, but in recent weeks he found himself on the other side of the lens. The founder and president of Artdocfest, the largest independent documentary film festival in Russia, was in the news throughout the festival in Moscow and St. Petersburg as he was closed down by the authorities and attacked by pro-Kremlin activists.  news...

Theory of the Novel Instructors: Armstrong and Garréta Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want to pursue some area of novel, fiction, or narrative studies, this course examines a set of concepts that should provide them access to 1) the modes of thinking that characterize novels across the modern and contemporary periods and several different national traditions, 2) the various ways that critical theory has defined those concepts, and 3) reading the novel as a concept-driven argument in relation to other disciplinary discourses, especially critical theory. The ...

Who is Kantemir Balagov, the Russian filmmaker to direct ‘Last of Us’ screen adaptation? Oleg Nikishin/TASS; Naughty Dog, 2013 Up-and-coming Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will direct the pilot episodes of HBO’s adaptation of the survival horror video game ‘The Last of Us’. Craig Mazin, the creator of the ‘Chernobyl’ TV series, will adapt the fast-paced PlayStation video game. The pilot will be exec produced by the writer and creative director of the game, Neil Druckmann. The details about who will star in the highly-anticipated adaptation haven’t been pub...