An Excerpt From Sergei Loiko’s ‘Airport’
Translated from the Russian by Alexander Cigale
The battle for Donetsk Airport was one of the bloodiest and hardest fought in the now three-year conflict...
A Ukrainian Journalist Responds To Barack Obama’s Great Book
By Oksana Kamienieva, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop
The Audacity of Hope was the second book written by the American President Barack Obama...
My Experiences Of The 3rd International Odessa Literary Festival
On September 28 and October 1, For the third year in a row, Odessa hosted numerous talented and well-known writers, poets and litterateurs who had...
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,...
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...
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...
Nineteenth Century Travelers In Odessa
Ernest Hemingway’s famous observation in his memoir ‘A Movable Feast’’, in which he describes Paris as “the place best organized for a writer to...
On Finding Babel: An Interview With David Novack
The American documentary film maker David Novack has been coming to Odessa for more than twenty years in connection with his interest in the...
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...
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,...
