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US academia still in thrall of “great Russia” myth
Terms like "masterpiece" and "genius" were far more likely to describe Russian versus non-Russian content, reflecting what researchers called qualitative bias
I’m done believing we’re the stupid ones, Ukrainian soldier tells Jonathan Franzen
In his first hit novel The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen refers to Ukraine as “the Ukraine,” it’s Ukraine’s colonial…
Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk: “War is not a metaphor”
On 18 June, during the opening of the Berlin Poetry Festival, award-winning Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk made a…
Ukrainian folk tale Kotyhoroshko translated to Japanese, tells story of boy born from peas like Japan’s Momotaro
[editorial]The Embassy of Ukraine in Japan together with Ukrainian and Japanese artists and translators prepared a publication of…
How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…
Eleven books to understand Ukraine’s ongoing struggle: a shortlist by Ukrainian politicians
[editorial]The contemporary Russo-Ukrainian war is a hybrid war — not only fought on the territories of Donbas but…
Russian literature no longer has the standing abroad it once had
Russians have long comforted themselves with the fact that however many bad things others can say about them…
PEN award-winning publisher needs your help to promote Ukrainian literature
Kalyna Language Press has been publishing Ukrainian literature in translation since 2013 and its translator Steve Komarnyckyj published…
What makes a man betray his country? Donbas native tells in novel of Europe’s forgotten war
What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the…
“Rebellious pagan” Ukrainian poet Antonych receives English translation
There are some old photographs which seem to preserve the subject in the amber light of a previous…
Ukrainian book on “little things in life” seeks to reach the English reader
Girls Talk Don’t come any closer Don’t come any nearer My vision of you Can’t come any clearer…
Ukrainian PEN-club appeals to Dutch for solidarity with a new democracy
The Ukrainian PEN-club members have appealed to their colleagues in The Netherlands to support a YES vote in…
Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance and a kickstarter for one of its modern successors
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some…
Let the songbird out of the cage – vote for Ukrainian literature
Vote online for the only Ukrainian book ever awarded a PEN award at the PEN World Bookshelf contest. [quote…
Burning of Ukrainian-language books continues in Crimea
Oksana Levkova, the Director of the Ukrainian public organization “Ne bud bayduzhym!” (Do not be indifferent!) reported that…