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,...
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...
Mickiewicz in Odessa by Artur Grabowski
Mickiewicz had been sentenced by trial a few months earlier, instigated by the emperor against a group of Wilno university students for an...
Jennifer Clement Speaks About The PEN International Congress Held In Lviv
Jennifer Clement is President of PEN International and the first woman to be elected to the office. She is an American-Mexican writer and the...
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...
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...
