Reading Vasily Grossman in 2022: The Burden of History
“The burden of history it carries is so overwhelming that most novels would sink under its weight.” This is how Robert Chandler introduces his translation […]
Soviet Union
“What Remains”: The Reverberations of War in Poland and Ukraine
“Do not forget to eat your vegetables” was not the message I expected to receive from a friend who now spends her days in and […]
My Ukraine Is Not Yet Lost
I first went to Ukraine in March 2003 to visit my mother’s hometown of Buczacz, now known as Buchach, and to undertake preliminary research in […]
