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...
Interview with French Philosopher Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray is widely acknowledged to be one of France’s most prominent thinkers. A self described ‘Anarchist Hedonist’ he is an original and important...
The Green Wave: From Book Fair To Book Festival
Odessites are well-known book lovers. So it is no surprise that for 21 years, the Green Wave has been taking place right here in...
The Art and Science of Translating Babel
In 1929, the great American literary critic Lionel Trilling read a book “about Soviet regiments of horse operating in Poland” that disturbed him, charged,...
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...
“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...
A Ukrainian Journalist Responds To Barack Obama’s Great Book
By Oksana Kamienieva, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop
The Audacity of Hope was the second book written by the American President Barack Obama...
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...
Deborah: From the Book of Uman Recollections by Mykola Bazhan
This poem appears in English for the first time, translated by Myroslav Shkandrij from the Ukrainian original. Mykola Bazhan, “Debora: Z knyhy umanskykh spohadiv,” Vitchyzna...
Orwell: The Wild Man
This essay forms the core of the book “Orwell & The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm”
“If you look into your mind, which...
