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To Clarice Lispector, Wherever She Might Find Me
Four decades after her passing, the acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 — December 9, 1977) is becoming ever more lionized for...
Agnieszka Holland Speaks About Her Forthcoming Holodomor Film “Gareth Jones”
The celebrated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland received her Lifetime Achievement Award at the conclusion of the Odessa International Film Festival on July 22. In...
An Interview With Jerome Vacher, The Outgoing IMF Representative In Ukraine
The French IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine, Jerome Vacher, was appointed to his position in the spring of 2013, and is now leaving his...
Vitaly Chernoivanenko On Jewish Studies In Ukraine
Vitaly Chernoivanenko is an associate professor at the Department of History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and co-director of the M.A. program...
Theater On Podil: A Controversial Facet Of The Ukrainian Architectural Revival
The newly built Podil Theater building has proven to be quite controversial with it’s modernist exterior making many observers quite unhappy. If nothing else,...
Bel Amie
In this fantastical story, the author imagines himself meeting with Bel Kaufman a few years after her death in 2014 at the age of...
Alfa Jazz Festival
The Alfa Jazz Festival in Lviv has become not only one of the most significant open-air events, but also one of the most important jazz events...
The Transformative Power Of The Primitive Imagery Of Dakha Brakha
The cult favorite Ukrainian ethno-folk group “DakhaBrakha” is definitely on the rise: in December 2016 they released their newest album “Shlyakh” (“Path”). During the...
Activists Fight To Save Ukraine’s Soviet-Era Mosaics
In the winter of 1918, Lenin wrote a letter to Soviet Education Commissar Anatoly Lunacharsky outlining his vision of a utopian socialist city. The...
