Meet

The white sorceress and the stealer of souls: A review of Sofia Yablonska’s travel diary ‘From the Land of Rice and Opium’

Hemingway Knows Nothing

Artur Dron: ‘Hemingway Knows Nothing’ is a candid conversation about war

Valeriy Puzik

Ukrainian writer and soldier Valeriy Puzik on culture and military literature — at the Frontera Literary Festival

ukrainian classics

Mykola Kulish: playwright destroyed by the system he once joined

children's books

S. D. Smith: The modern experiment of relativizing morality is a failure

ambassadors

Serhii Plokhy: Empires fall and nations rise from their ruins

books about war

Evgeniy Maloletka’s ‘The Siege of Mariupol’: Documentary books as a way to escape oblivion

ambassadors of Ukrainian books

Hugh Roberts: Often I wonder who is supporting whom

literary evening

New poetry and tickets sold out a week before the event: How Artur Dron’s literary evening went

literary festival

Underground community: How literary evenings are held in Kramatorsk

Laboratoria publishing house

Publisher at war: ‘We used to study how to think. Now, we study how to feel and live’

Serhiy Zhadan

One-Zhadan theater: When popular literature becomes popular theatrical performance

Tanja Maljartschuk

Tanja Maljarschuk: ‘Homeland is the place where your wounds come from’

Greece

Krystalli Glyniadakis: In Greek poetry, the political becomes personal

Greece

Three writers in the war zone: ‘Three and a half years later, we are still here’

ambassadors

Daisy Gibbons: It’s interesting that so many “giants” of Russian literature often worked in Ukraine or came from Ukraine

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Yuriy Skira talks about Lviv’s “life-saving factory” during the Holocaust

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Stanisław Lem’s darkest star

CELA

Julija Lukovnjak: We don’t notice thousands of good writers living normal, unsuccessful lives

CELA

Magdalena Sodomkova: All my work is trying to make people active

ambassadors

Nina Murray: Poetry in the US is read by academics and soldiers

ambassadors

Andreas Umland: The war on Ukraine makes a Russian breakup more plausible

Drahomán Prize

Eero Balk: Our elders warned us that the KGB might try to recruit us

2025 Shevchenko National Prize

What’s in our love for Yuri Izdryk