Literature

Ukrainian poet and corporal Yaryna Chornohuz, life between words and weapons

Being committed to her country’s defense since 2019, both through her writings and on the...

The Ukrainian Town Where ‘Masochism’ Was Born

The writing of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch impacted the world, but in his birthplace of Lviv,...

Poems inspired by Ukrainian women win Kobzar Book Award – 2020

The Shevchenko Foundation has been dedicated to the promotion and development of Ukrainian Canadian culture...

Red Famine by Anne Applebaum review – did Stalin deliberately let Ukraine starve?

The terrible famine of 1932-3 hit all the major Soviet grain-growing regions, but Ukraine worst...

The cult of Babel: Odessa’s literary flashmobs attract book-loving tourists

The Black Sea city may lack the pedigree of St Petersburg but it was home...

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