{"title": "Rab-Rab, Three Men in a Tub (of Publishing Avant-Garde Literature)", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening book talk, held both in person and online, devoted to the avant-garde literature published by Rab-Rab Press. It brings together Sezgin Boynik, founder of the Helsinki-based press, poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky, and artist and curator Nikolay Karabinovych, moderated by Isabel Jacobs. They will discuss the eight-volume bie-bao series on the Futurist poet and typographic artist Iliazd, and the new publication of Shop-Signs in Kharkiv by the 1920s Ukrainian modernist Maik Yohansen. 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It is co-presented by Pushkin House and Klassiki as a companion to the film season After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film, which screens four adaptations of their work. Science fiction experts Adam Roberts and Mark Bould will discuss what the brothers meant for readers and cinema audiences in their time and what their work tells us today, including its political, environmental and artistic implications. Samuel Goff, editorial director of Klassiki, chairs the conversation, which also features presentations and questions from the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rediscovering-the-strugatsky-brothers-a-talk-with-mark-bould-38091/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6559", "image": "https://noky.io/images/510ae9da50b1ad77b5e6f30ac43eb3834b8d6050dacb012dbb90551bdc9bd55a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "AN EDITIONS & CENTREHOUSE PRESS", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quaker Bookshop", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://bookshop.quaker.org.uk/classic-books", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books"], "description": "A book launch evening at which AN Editions and CentreHouse Press present new titles and paperback editions. AN Editions, the publishing arm of the magazine Ars Notoria, launches new books by Norman B. Schwarz and Peter Cowlam alongside paperbacks of J.W. 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