The Decommunizing Of Taras Shevchenko
The remarkable poet and artist who is considered to be the father of the modern Ukrainian nation means different things to different people. It...
On “Jews And Ukrainians: A Millennium Of Co-Existence”
The newly published volume “Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence”, authored by the historians Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a prodigious coffee...
“Babyn Yar: History And Memory”: A Book About More Than The Past
The book “Babyn Yar: History and Memory” appeared just before the 75th anniversary of the tragedy that took place in Babyn Yar during the...
Korney Chukovsky: Odessa’s Famous And Also Unknown Writer
He was Vladimir Zhabotinsky’s childhood friend; a defender of Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova; translator of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling; chronicler...
Going To Lviv
The Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski’s extravagant and miraculous new collection, ‘Slight Exaggeration,’ takes on banality and vulgarity through elegant art. This article...
I Am A Jew!
Viktor Yerofeyev is one of the best known Russian writers working today, the author of modern classics such as “Life with an Idiot” (which...
Odessa’s Neglected Poets: Semyon Keselman And Anatoly Fioletov
Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read our long interview with him here.
“Odessa is a nasty place,” wrote...
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...
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...
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...
