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Promoting Tolerance Through Film: A Conversation With Docudays UA Human Rights Program Coordinator Nadiya...
The International Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA will be held in Kyiv at the end of March. In the past few years, it has...
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,...
New Anthology Celebrates the Rebel Composers of Ukraine’s Sixties
Back in the day, they were outcasts writing ideologically suspect music. Now, their works are being recognized as some of the most important compositions...
Filmed in Odessa:
An Odessa marked the shooting locations of hundreds of films on a city map.
It was truly a titanic work and took almost ten years...
The Odessan Dvorik
The Ukrainian and Russian words “dvorik” and “dvor” (or dvoriki and dvori in plural) are frequently translated into English as either “courtyard” or “patio,”...
The New Dictionary Of Received Ideas
In the late 19th century, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert compiled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues (The Dictionary of Received Ideas), an encyclopedia of...
Ukrainian Literature Comes To Paris In The Spring Of 2018
This promises to be a great moment for contemporary literature in France. From March 16th to the 20th, the annual Paris book fair (Le...
April 12, Kyiv. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Recorded at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena in October 2017, Distant Sky captures an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds....
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...
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...
