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Eduard Bagritsky’s “Smugglers”
This rendition of a classic modernist poem was translated by Boris Dralyuk, the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read our long...
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...
New Anthology Celebrates the Rebel Composers of Ukraine’s Sixties
Back in the day, they were outcasts writing ideologically suspect music. Now, their works are being recognized as some of the most important compositions...
Theater On Empire’s Edge
The recently published “Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine” by Mayhill C. Fowler (University of Toronto Press, 2017) details...
Returning Agnon To Ukraine
In 1966, the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book “A Guest for the Night”. Set...
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...
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...
The Intellectual’s Guide To Ukrainian Reality Television
A few months ago at a party in Kyiv, I met a young woman who worked at the Ukrainian television channel STB. “Oh, that’s...
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,...
Understanding The Fundamentals Of “Design Thinking”
Over the last year, Ukraine has seen a boom in lectures and workshops on “design thinking”. The concept may sound like an industry insider...
