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Odessa Tales By Boris Khersonsky

Once, at the dawn of Perestroika, I phoned the Odessa Intelligentsia. “Pronto,” – replied the familiar, slightly raspy voice. “She’s been to Naples again!” – I...

Aleksey Gogokhia: Alternative Music Man Extraordinaire

Longtime promoter, radio personality, curator, program director of Odessa's most original radio station — FM1 Radio and Art director of the M1 Club-Hotel.  An...

Letter From Odessa: The Non-Socialist City, Capitalist Realism And Donald Trump

A scholar of Stalinist architecture muses on its strange revivals in 21st century Russia and Ukraine. During each of the past two summers, I spent...

How To Write A Book In The Ukrainian Literary Context 

By Daria Popovich, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop This is an excerpt from a longer work in progress on working on...

Outcomes and Winners of “Docudays” 15th International Film Festival: War with a Female Face

March 30th was the last day of the 15th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Kyiv. This year participants included 62 films from...

Odessa Conceptualism or “L’Enfant Terrible”

For the Odessa art world, the main event of 2015 was undoubtedly the “l’Enfant Terrible” exhibition which took place in the Kyiv National Ukrainian...
From Fukushima with Love

OIFF Update: "From Fukushima with Love" (2016)

International aid work for impoverished or disaster-ridden areas is very popular; so popular it has essentially become its own vacation industry: “voluntourism”. Thus every...

Vitaly Chernoivanenko On Jewish Studies In Ukraine

Vitaly Chernoivanenko is an associate professor at the Department of History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and co-director of the M.A. program...

On The Languages Of Ukrainian Poetry

The events of the past two years have divided Ukrainian poets no less than they have divided other sectors of society. The Russian-language publishing...

Technology And Contempory Art

Berlin’s renowned Transmediale festival is an ongoing adventure in art, culture and technology, and is an important stop on the international art festival circuit....