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What Is Street Art And Why Odessa Needs It
Street art comes to Odessa as a new generation of young urban reformers think about integrating luscious murals and street honed non conformist artisanship...
A Dialogue With Historian Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii is one of the most prominent contemporary historians specializing in the history of Ukraine across the English speaking world. Plokhii is the...
15th Koktebel Jazz Festival
On August 27 in Chernomorsk, the 15th Koktebel Jazz Festival, which has long been positioned not so much as jazz festival, but as a...
Australia’s Aboriginal Art: A Human Rights Puzzle
The ongoing revival of aboriginal art in Australia is emblematic of the nation’s complex history, and the often fraught relationship between Australia’s settlers and...
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...
Ukrainian Literature’s Boy Wonder Goes West
A profile of Ukraine’s most ambitious young writer.
On the surface, Andriy Lyubka is hardly an intimidating presence. With his boyish face and long, sandy hair,...
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...
Odessa Photographer In Focus: Vera Mantyuk
Vera Mantyuk is 35 years old; she was born and lives in Odessa. Interested in photography for a long time, she has been experimenting...
OIFF Update: “Illegitimate” (2016)
What boundaries do people have in life? Of course, different people have different answers. The Romanian film “Illegitimate”, directed by Adrian Sitaru, deals with...
Twenty Years Of Bridge-Building
Since 1997, the intellectual journal Krytyka has projected an alternate future program for Ukraine: democracy, openness, internationalism. For twenty years, The journal has been...
