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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...
Theater On Podil: A Controversial Facet Of The Ukrainian Architectural Revival
The newly built Podil Theater building has proven to be quite controversial with it’s modernist exterior making many observers quite unhappy. If nothing else,...
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,...
Outcomes and Winners of “Docudays” 15th International Film Festival: War with a Female Face
March 30th was the last day of the 15th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Kyiv. This year participants included 62 films from...
The Third Odessa International Literature Festival
The festival takes place for the third year in Odessa between September 28th and October 1, 2017.
Now In its third year, the Odessa Literary...
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...
The Seventh Odessa International Film Festival: A Recap
A critic recounts the masterpieces, the surprises and the inimitable spirit of the summer’s marquee cultural event
Each year, the judges’ task of choosing one...
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...
Wrestling With Dark History: Soviet Holocaust Films And The New Ukraine
Despite the fact that almost half of all Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust were killed on the territory of the Soviet Union, their...
Oscars 2018
The Odessa Review's film critic on the 2018 Oscar race.
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony is about to take place at the Dolby Theatre in...
