Eugene Ostashevsky On “The Life And Opinions Of DJ Spinoza”
Eugene Ostashevsky is an American poet who was born in Leningrad into a family partially deriving from Odessa. He is now living in Berlin....
Zvi Preigerzon: the Soviet Union’s secret Hebrew writer
The story of a Ukrainian-born writer who secretly wrote in the Hebrew language his entire life while working as a coal engineer.
By all accounts,...
James Bond is From Odessa
From Ukraine with Love: Hollywood’s favorite British spy, James Bond, was inspired by the great Odessa born adventurer.
Everyone knows the world’s most famous secret...
The Literary’s Museum Conference on Issac Babel with “Finding Babel” director David Novack
On July 14th, the Odessa Review and the Literary Museum in Odessa hosted a miniature academic conference about Issac Babel - his artifacts, his...
The Third Odessa International Literature Festival
The festival takes place for the third year in Odessa between September 28th and October 1, 2017.
Now In its third year, the Odessa Literary...
Facebook’s Role In The Paradigm Of Ukraine’s Modern Literary Process
It should be no surprise that Ukraine’s political revolution has also given birth to a literary renaissance, one that is firmly connected to the...
Justice in Quotes
First I had dealings with Benya Krik, then with Lyubka Shneyveys. Do these words mean anything to you? Do they leave a taste in...
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...
The Escape
Translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. “The Escape” was published in Andriy Lyubka’s 2016 book of short fiction “A...
Mark Twain in Odessa
The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress is the title of the acerbically funny travelogue penned by Mark Twain during his 1867 trip through...
