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...
Ukrainian Writer Yurii Andrukhovych On Literary Translation And Beat Poetry
Yurii Andrukhovych is perhaps the most renowned prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator in contemporary Ukrainian literature. He was born in the city of...
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Ode to Charms of Odessa
Globally acclaimed historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore is convinced that Odessa is unlike any other city.
About the author: Simon Sebag Montefiore is a...
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...
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...
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...
Guidebook to Imaginary Cities (a poem) by Boris Hersonsky
Guidebook to Imaginary Cities
In this city everything is in reverse relation:
to the center from the gate, the whole time
you’ll walk not up a hill,...
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...
