I reviewed Tanja Maljartschuk's incredible novel Forgottenness, now available in Zenia Tompkins's English translation. Read more at @kyivindependent.comkyivindependent.com/book-review-...
In the midst of a full-blown agoraphobic episode, the unnamed narrator of Tanja Maljartschuk’s novel “Forgottenness,” becomes engrossed in reading old newspapers. Asked by her increasingly conce...
Who doesn't appreciate a good listicle? I started off 2024 by writing about 10 Ukrainian books that every foreigner should read to understand Russia's war. Read it now at @kyivindependent.comkyivindependent.com/10-ukrainian...
Ukraine’s authors should have been able to dedicate their lives to honing their craft. Instead, many of them have stepped up to contribute to the war effort and fight back against Russian aggression...
Given Russia’s longstanding efforts to erase Ukraine’s culture, Ukrainian authors’ literary contributions are important. Here are 10 books by Ukrainian authors to better understand wartime Ukraine.
Ukraine’s authors should have been able to dedicate their lives to honing their craft. Instead, many of them have stepped up to contribute to the war effort and fight back against Russian aggression...
My last piece for 2023 is a review of Olesya Khromeychuk's gripping memoir "The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister." Read now in @kyivindependent.comkyivindependent.com/wartime-memo...
A historian by profession who has studied war for over a decade, Olesya Khromeychuk found her research spilling over into real life when her older brother Volodymyr was killed in 2017 near Popasna in ...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Christians have long celebrated Christmas on Jan. 6-7. in accordance with the Julian calendar, but this year, the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) approved a transition. Ukrainians will officially celebrate Christmas on Dec. 24-25 going forward.
Ukrainian author Yevheniia Zavalii started celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 back in 2014, “when the rejection of everything Russian” began in her life. Undeterred by criticism from some people...
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Ukrainian author Yevheniia Zavalii started celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 back in 2014, “when the rejection of everything Russian” began in her life. Undeterred by criticism from some people...
This time last year, at a literary retreat in the Polish borderlands with authors Lyuba Yakimchuk, Irena Karpa, Victoria Amelina, and Roman Malynovksy. So much has changed since then, not only that the war took Victoria from us too soon. But I'm thankful for such memories.
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It was at Kyiv’s Independence Square on Dec. 1, 2013, when Ukrainians gathered during the Revolution of Dignity to express their outrage over violent police crackdowns against protestors the day pri...
In “The Longest Journey,” Zabuzhko addresses the historical backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war, examining not only its broader implications but also its profound effects on the lives of individual Ukrainians.
Russia's war against Ukraine did not start on Feb. 24, 2022. The illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the invasion of Donbas in 2014 were also not isolated incidents and had many historica...
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Russia's war against Ukraine did not start on Feb. 24, 2022. The illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the invasion of Donbas in 2014 were also not isolated incidents and had many historica...