Ukrainian Literature’s Boy Wonder Goes West
A profile of Ukraine’s most ambitious young writer.
On the surface, Andriy Lyubka is hardly an intimidating presence. With his boyish face and long, sandy hair,...
A Conversation About Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry With Ukraine’s Renowned Poet Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Zhadan’s youthful looks in his early 40’s are symbolic of this cult status among Ukraine’s younger generation. The events of the Maidan have...
Reflections Of A Translingual Writer
A well-known American author, translator and scholar of Russian and Jewish literature muses on what it means to emigrate and to live and write...
Eduard Bagritsky’s “Smugglers”
This rendition of a classic modernist poem was translated by Boris Dralyuk, the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read our long...
An Excerpt from “By The Black Sea” by Mikhail Kapchinsky
This is an excerpt from the 1952 memoirs of the Odessa Film Studio’s legendary first director Mikhail Kapchinsky. The excerpt provides a remarkable historical...
The 2016 Reading List
2016 was a great year for books about Ukrainian and Soviet history. Check out our top 8 picks and find something to take on...
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,...
Returning Agnon To Ukraine
In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book “A Guest for the Night”. Set...
On Finding Babel: An Interview With David Novack
The American documentary film maker David Novack has been coming to Odessa for more than twenty years in connection with his interest in the...
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....
