What a pleasure (and honor!) to hold in my hands the latest literature anthology from Vogue Ukraine which includes translations by Dmytro Kyyan and me. 💙💛

What will they do to US citizens entering the country who criticize Israel, I wonder?

For the latest edition of my newsletter for The Kyiv Independent I wrote about the brilliant scholar Solomiia Pavlychko, feminism, the "new" Ukrainian woman, sex, motherhood and more. Subscribe today: kyivindependent.com/newsletters/

This phrasing sounds like Trump is approving even more Russian attacks on Ukraine.

Launched to promote Russian literature on the global stage during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the new Dar (“Gift”) literary prize is already mired in controversy — and not just for its troubling timing. kyivindependent.com/controversial-…

One of the shortlisted authors of the first Dar literary prize was called out for his previous work in a Russian state agency that held “cultural” events for abducted Ukrainian kids. The controversies don’t end there. My latest for The Kyiv Independent. kyivindependent.com/controversial-…

Trump is not even half a year into his presidency, can you imagine how much crazy shit we will have seen by December?

Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Marko Vovchok — why do you know Fyodor Dostoevsky's work in English translation but not theirs? A brief little listicle, my latest for The Kyiv Independent. kyivindependent.com/wondering-wher…

“Why do so few English-language readers know the Ukrainian authors who were the contemporaries of Dostoevsky? “The lack of global recognition for Ukraine’s classic writers is not coincidental. It reflects a legacy of imperial domination.”

We are literally just $52 away from meeting our goal of completely replacing the National Endowment of the Arts funding that was taken from Deep Vellum and Open Letter: secure.givelively.org/donate/deep-ve…

He knows that a border crisis isn’t an invasion—that makes this all the more sinister. America is turning full fascist, there’s no other way to put it.

Los Angeles is a large city in a large county. I’ve been on the road all day—Silver Lake to Lynwood to WeHo, back again—and saw nothing but a few peaceful assemblies, with most people going about their difficult or pleasant days. I saw flags of all nations. Our glory. Our pride.

I spoke to the delightful Alexey Zhavoronkov about why Russia is not a stronghold of "traditional values" and why genocidal ideologue Alexander Dugin is no real philsopher. My latest for The Kyiv Independent. kyivindependent.com/exiled-russian…

Kyiv. Today. The biggest attack of one could imagine. 2,5 hours of shahed attack with constant explosions everywhere. It felt like a nightmare. Russia is killing and demolishing our country in this genocide. Dear world, please, wake up.

Absolutely vulgar and disgusting behavior for the vice president of the so-called greatest country in the world

My interview with living legend Yuri Andrukhovych about the origins of Bu-Ba-Bu and Ukrainian dissident art in Soviet times. My latest for The Kyiv Independent. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-arti…

The revelation late last week that Putin's alleged daughter works in anti-war art galleries in Paris led to public debates in the Russian emigre community about accountability, transparency, and trust during wartime. My latest for The Kyiv Independent. kyivindependent.com/paris-art-scen…