Nineteenth Century Travelers In Odessa
Ernest Hemingway’s famous observation in his memoir ‘A Movable Feast’’, in which he describes Paris as “the place best organized for a writer to...
My Path To Bruno Schulz, The Messiah From Drohobych
Bruno Schulz, the great Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian Modernist writer, has become a cult favorite in the decades after he was murdered by a...
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...
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...
Imparting Literary Magic Through Translation: A Conversation With Boris Dralyuk
Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as a literary translator. He holds a PhD in...
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...
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,...
An Excerpt From Sergei Loiko’s ‘Airport’
Translated from the Russian by Alexander Cigale
The battle for Donetsk Airport was one of the bloodiest and hardest fought in the now three-year conflict...
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...
