Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Ode to Charms of Odessa
Globally acclaimed historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore is convinced that Odessa is unlike any other city.
About the author: Simon Sebag Montefiore is a...
France’s Most Divisive Philosophical Debate Arrives In Odessa
It is a commonly assumed axiom that the French public loves nothing more than an adroit intellectual duel. Over the past year, attention has...
Eugene Ostashevsky On “The Life And Opinions Of DJ Spinoza”
Eugene Ostashevsky is an American poet who was born in Leningrad into a family partially deriving from Odessa. He is now living in Berlin....
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...
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...
Going To Lviv
The Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski’s extravagant and miraculous new collection, ‘Slight Exaggeration,’ takes on banality and vulgarity through elegant art. This article...
“Babyn Yar: History And Memory”: A Book About More Than The Past
The book “Babyn Yar: History and Memory” appeared just before the 75th anniversary of the tragedy that took place in Babyn Yar during the...
I Am A Jew!
Viktor Yerofeyev is one of the best known Russian writers working today, the author of modern classics such as “Life with an Idiot” (which...
Zvi Preigerzon: the Soviet Union’s secret Hebrew writer
The story of a Ukrainian-born writer who secretly wrote in the Hebrew language his entire life while working as a coal engineer.
By all accounts,...
The Literary’s Museum Conference on Issac Babel with “Finding Babel” director David Novack
On July 14th, the Odessa Review and the Literary Museum in Odessa hosted a miniature academic conference about Issac Babel - his artifacts, his...
