Category:Reviews

collection

A new book collects Davyd Chychkan’s portraits of anarchists and socialists defending Ukraine

28.10.2026 - Jared Goyette

New York Review Books

Sex, escape, and rock ‘n’ roll: A review of ‘Radio Night’ by Yuri Andrukhovych

09.10.2026 - Tetyana Petrenko

Earth

Enchanting the ephemeral: A review of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s ‘The Enchanted Desna’

22.08.2026 - Tetyana Petrenko

Artem Chapeye

Confessions of a modern opium-eater: A review of Artem Chapeye’s ‘T-Happiness’

03.08.2026 - Tetyana Petrenko

Åsne Seierstad

Reading a Wagner Soldier through Ukrainian eyes: The villain who still commands the world’s attention in Åsne Seierstad’s book

25.06.2026 - Svitlana Oslavska 

Eugenia Kuznetsova

A manual for interacting with Ukrainians. Three bestsellers from Eugenia Kuznetsova

11.12.2025 - Tetyana Petrenko

books about war

Review of Artur Dron’s book ‘Hemingway Knows Nothing’

07.11.2025 - Taras Pastukh

The Dress-Up Game

Why does a soldier need music? Review of Artem Chekh’s ‘The Dress-Up Game’

04.11.2025 - Oleksandra Melezhyk

Armenia

Last Night on Earth: War through the eyes of women from Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine

22.09.2025 - Nata Koval

Gaze of Medusa

How not to turn to stone from the ‘Gaze of Medusa’: A review of a novel by Lyubko Deresh

09.09.2025 - Tetyana Petrenko

poetry collection

Foxes, birds, and the contradictions of the era: A new translation of Ukrainian poetry

22.07.2025 - Oleh Kotsarev

Georgia

‘The Eighth Life’ by Nino Haratischvili: Georgia for Western consumption

19.12.2024 - Tetyana Petrenko