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A Talk With Pioneer Of Soviet Rock Music Journalism Artemy Troitsky
Artemy Troitsky is a journalist, music critic, promoter and broadcaster who played a vital role in popularizing independent Soviet rock music, as well as...
Babel’s Extended Ode to Odessa
'Odessa' by Isaac Babel
Translated by Val Vinokur
Photo by Igor Sytnik
Odessa is a nasty town. Everybody knows this. Instead of saying “what’s the difference,” over...
On Yefim Ladyzhensky: Art Critic Barry Schwabsky And Artist Sanya Kantarovsky Discuss The Legacy...
One of the more unusual exhibitions of last year’s art world calendar took place at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City: “Odessa:...
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...
Odessa In Anticipation Of Christmas And The New Year: In 2017 And 200 Years...
By Alexandra Pakina, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop
The New Year is on its way. The city adorns itself with festive decorations....
OIFF Update: “From Fukushima with Love” (2016)
International aid work for impoverished or disaster-ridden areas is very popular; so popular it has essentially become its own vacation industry: “voluntourism”. Thus every...
Guidebook to Imaginary Cities (a poem) by Boris Hersonsky
Guidebook to Imaginary Cities
In this city everything is in reverse relation:
to the center from the gate, the whole time
you’ll walk not up a hill,...
OIFF Update: "The Lure" (2015)
Polish films have been pretty popular in the history of the Odessa International Film Festival. At the first festival, the film “Lullaby” won best...
The Original Version: Cinema As It Was Meant To Be Seen
Seeing a film subtitled, without dubbing, can be a great way of learning foreign languages. And for those who are fluent in foreign speech,...
GOGOLFEST 2017
The upcoming iterations of the Ukraine’s beloved GOGOLFEST are to take place place between 7th–17th of September across several locations around Kyiv, including VDNG,...
