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Odessa Film Festival Raises Jewish Cinema’s Profile In Ukraine
On October 28th, the First Odessa Jewish Film Festival (OJFF) premiered with the French film The Jews, directed by Yvan Attal and starring Charlotte...
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...
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,...
Are Odessa Officials Ready for Decentralization?
Ukraine prepares to devolve power to regions but questions remain over capabilities of local authorities
When national and local governments fail to meet society’s needs,...
Calligraphy’s Coming Renaissance In Ukraine
When I arrived at central Kyiv’s Zigzag cafe, Taras Makar was already seated at a table, intently scribbling away in his Moleskine. As I...
The New Nude: A Modern Outlook On Ukrainian Erotica
The lavishly illustrated volume “Ukrainian Erotic Photography” deals frankly with sexuality in contemporary Ukraine. The book has created a wave of excitement and has...
Keep Your Eyes Peeled: 2018 In Ukrainian Film
In 2017, Ukraine released more than 30 films — shorts and features, dramas and documentaries, Ukrainian films and co-productions with other countries, wide releases...
Vlada Ralko “Anatomy”: The Beginning Of A New Era For The Odessa Fine Art...
2018 promises to be a very big year of radical change for the Odessa Fine Art Museum. After four of months of both political...
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...
The Odessa Review’s OIFF Diary: Day 6 — The Distinguished Citizen, Secondo Me, Orpheline,...
The Distinguished Citizen, Secondo Me, Orpheline
By Yevgeniya Seleznyova
After all of yesterday’s challenges, today has turned out to be quite a pleasure. Finally — well-made...
