Babel: the Black Sea Bard
The Odessa Review pays tribute to Odessa’s most influential and inspirational literary figure
Isaac Babel’s short story collections, ‘The Odessa Tales’ and ‘Red Cavalry’ remain...
Andrea Chalupa Answers Four Questions About Orwell
1.Let us begin with Orwell. There is a resurgence now of interest in the work of Orwell with all of the issues surrounding fake...
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,...
The Literary’s Museum Conference on Issac Babel with “Finding Babel” director David Novack
On July 14th, the Odessa Review and the Literary Museum in Odessa hosted a miniature academic conference about Issac Babel - his artifacts, his...
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...
21st Century War: Conflict As Political Theatre
The man was as insistent as he was drunk. He leaned in; his reeking breath was repellent.
“Putin he Strong, he strong!” he slurred. “Kyiv...
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,...
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...
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,...
On The Radarami Project
An American long active in Georgia writes about his organization, which is dedicated to connecting the small Georgian nation to big ideas around the...
