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Serhiy Zhadan
Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine
Nelly Klos Recommends Books, Plays, and Memoirs That Uplift Ukrainian Voices
By
Nelly Klos
| September 29, 2025
Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Serhiy Zhadan Records the Emergence of a New Reality in Kharkiv
By
Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
| May 17, 2023
In the Hour of War: Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry
“Take only what is most important. Take the letters. / Take only what you can carry.”
By
Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky
| February 24, 2023
Poetry After Bucha: Serhiy Zhadan on Ukraine, Russia, and the Demands War Makes of Language
"There’s no such thing as peace without justice."
By
Serhiy Zhadan
| October 26, 2022
Ukraine’s wartime President Zelenskyy to address the Frankfurt Book Fair on Thursday.
By
Jonny Diamond
| October 18, 2022
Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan has won the German Peace Prize.
By
Jonny Diamond
| June 27, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Why We Should Read About the Soviet Past In Order to Understand Ukraine Now
By
Sofi Oksanen
| March 9, 2022
Read from
The Orphanage
, a Novel of Occupied Ukraine
By
Serhiy Zhadan
| March 4, 2022
Hear from Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan and others at a reading this Friday.
By
Corinne Segal
| March 3, 2022
“You’ve got to live somewhere you aren’t afraid to die.” Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry From Kharkiv
Read Four Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, Newly Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk
By
Literary Hub
| March 2, 2022
In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation
Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler on Maintaining the Aesthetic
Character of a Text
By
Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
| May 14, 2021
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"