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On Laurence Oliphant: The Most Interesting and Banal Travel Writer of All Time
I invite you, dear reader, to try out the following anthropological experiment the next time you are on a transcontinental flight: wander about the...
Odessa’s “Invogue” Gallery Opens With An Exhibition Of Stepan Ryabchenko’s Digital Paintings
The DELPHINIUM flower is the star of the “Honey Plants” exhibition poster — a very common Ukrainian field flower with a powerful honey fragrance...
The Zaporizhia Land Art Festival
Zaporizhia celebrated its tenth annual “Land Art” festival the last weekend of April. Located on Sagaydachne, a territory that boasts a diverse history (from...
The New British Film Festival Comes To Odessa November 24th
The New British Film Festival, with the participation of British Council Ukraine, begins in Odessa on November 24th at the festival center "Rodina" and continues through...
Top 5 for the Weekend of August 19-21
Andrey Lubka
August 20 at 7pm
A literary evening with contemporary Ukrainian poet, translator and essayist. Andrey Lubka is the author of poetry collections, participant of...
21st Century War: Conflict As Political Theatre
The man was as insistent as he was drunk. He leaned in; his reeking breath was repellent.
“Putin he Strong, he strong!” he slurred. “Kyiv...
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...
Andrea Chalupa Answers Four Questions About Orwell
1.Let us begin with Orwell. There is a resurgence now of interest in the work of Orwell with all of the issues surrounding fake...
The Escape
Translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. “The Escape” was published in Andriy Lyubka’s 2016 book of short fiction “A...
Do You Hear What I Hear: Holiday Music Traditions That Bring Communities Together
Cultural traditions, especially near-universal and well-established ones surrounding the winter holidays, offer an avalanche of stimuli for the senses — the scents and flavors...
