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Your Guide To The 2018 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival

The Molodist film festival, the longest running film festival in Ukraine, will take place between May, 27th and June, 3 at which point the...

“Nightmare After Christmas” – Kinder Album’s Melancholic, Indulgent Winter Wonderland

Kinder Album is the pseudonym of a young woman artist from Lviv. Kinder Album is an anonymous art project which began on Facebook in...

A Conversation With Lithuanian Film Maker Mantas Kvedaravicius

The Odessa Review spoke with the Lithuanian director who represented Ukraine at the world-renowned Berlinale film festival this year. The Odessa Review’s Ute Kilter...

September 1st In Odessa: A Farewell To Flowers Or Arms?

A few days before autumn classes began, I checked the school’s announcement board for the schedule of the first day and noticed a curious...

Odessa’s Unique, Disappearing “Tea Factory”

It’s easy to overlook Odessa’s Kanatnaya Street. As one of the busiest and longest roads in the city — packed with food shops, cafes,...

Babel: the Black Sea Bard

The Odessa Review pays tribute to Odessa’s most influential and inspirational literary figure Isaac Babel’s short story collections, ‘The Odessa Tales’ and ‘Red Cavalry’ remain...
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Yuri Kuznetsov, Odessa’s Great Jazz Pianist Passes On

This morning Odessa said goodbye to Yuri Kuznetsov, it’s greatest Jazz pianist, with almost five hundred of his friends and loyal fans gathering for...

March 16 – April 15, British and Ukrainian Artists in Kharkiv

Emerging British and Ukrainian Artists Show their Work in Kharkiv The British Council opens the 2018 exhibition season with a presentation of works by UK...

Deborah: From the Book of Uman Recollections by Mykola Bazhan

This poem appears in English for the first time, translated by Myroslav Shkandrij from the Ukrainian original. Mykola Bazhan, “Debora: Z knyhy umanskykh spohadiv,” Vitchyzna...