Since 1981, he has been published as a critic in Literaturnaya Gazeta, New World, October, Banner, Friendship of Peoples, Our Contemporary, and Russian Binding online magazine.

Compiled collections of works by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreev, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Kuzmin; anthology "Village prose": In 2 vols.

In collaboration with Sergey Fedyakin, he wrote a book: “Russian literature of the late XIX – early XX centuries and the first emigration” (M., 1998).

In 2014, he was awarded the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of culture for the book "Saint against Leo.

In turn, Basinsky portrayed Pelevin in Russian Novel as a fashion writer Viktor Sornyakov, author of the book Denikin and Nothing[4][5]..

In 2018, the film directed by Avdotya Smirnova "The History of One Appointment" was released, the basis for which was one of the chapters of his book "The Holy Against Leo.

[6] Работа была отмечена премиями «Ника» и «Золотой орёл» за лучший сценарий (А. Смирнова, А. Пармас, П.