'This book,' says Anna Narinskaya, 'consists almost entirely of articles written in the time since my emigration from Russia. The exception is the texts dedicated to my friend, the poet Grigory Dashevsky, a man who knew how to distinguish good from evil. In the time since his death in 2013, this rare quality has become even more important, and Grisha's absence even more glaring. For the most part, these are journalistic texts that try to somehow reassemble the shards that my and many of my friends' (sometimes I dare speak not only for myself) picture of life after February 2022 has turned into. They were written for different occasions and for different publications, but some themes and even some illustrative examples and quotes are repeated from text to text.' These texts, these quotes, and these people will be discussed at the evening dedicated to the presentation of the book.

'The texts of Anna Narinskaya and the works of Ivan Lungina has an obvious common denominator: they are a direct consequence of February 24, 2022; without the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they would not have existed, or they would have been different. But, emanating from this community, from a zone of collective despair and disintegration, they never cease to explore and (perhaps even more importantly) to see and learn. It's amazing that clarity and hopelessness can also be healing; even more amazing, that there are voices capable of telling madness, 'No such thing.' - Maria Stepanova