Artem Chekh: Точка нуль (Absolute Zero)
The latest addition to my website is Artem Chekh's Точка нуль (Absolute Zero). This is an account of Chekh's time serving in the Ukrainian army during the War in Donbass…
Romania and Ukraine
I have just returned from a cruise down the Danube, into the Black Sea and up the Dnieper. Though this was not the purpose, there was a lot to see…
Tanja Maljartschuk: Біографія випадкового чуда (A Biography of a Chance Miracle)
The latest addition to my website is Tanja Maljartschuk's Біографія випадкового чуда (A Biography of a Chance Miracle). The novel is about corruption, incompetence, inefficiency, brutality and indifference in contemporary…
Margarita Khemlin: Дознаватель (The Investigator)
The latest addition to my website is Margarita Khemlin's Дознаватель (The Investigator). This is a complicated murder mystery, set in Chernihiv (Chernigov in this book), Khemlin's home town, in the…
Lesia Daria: Forty One
The latest addition to my website is Lesia Daria's Forty One. This is a novel by a woman born in the USA, of Ukrainian parents but currently living in the…
Yuri Andrukhovych: Перверзія (Perverzion)
The latest addition to my website is Yuri Andrukhovych's Перверзія (Perverzion). This is a wonderful post-modern romp, telling the story of what may be the last week in the life…
Yuri Andrukhovych: Рекреації (Recreations)
The latest addition to my website is Yuri Andrukhovych's Рекреації (Recreations). This is a thoroughly enjoyable anarchic take on the first day of Festival of the Resurrecting Spirit in Chortopil…
Ukraine
John Dugdale, in the Guardian, has produced an interesting list of writers born in Ukraine but not usually associated with that country . It includes the likes of Gogol, Conrad,…