Ukrainian writers

Russian culture has remained stuck in “old world” thinking and Russia is the only empire that has not repented for being an empire, Ukrainian writer Yurii Andrukhovych said on May 26.

I’ve been living for a week now in apartment №40 of the Slovo (“Word”) House in Kharkiv — the apartment of Ukrainian journalist Petro Lisoviy. It’s hard to describe the sensation — as if time folds in on itself. You wake up not simply in a room but in a point of singularity, where the air still carries the voices of poets and dreamers who believed that The Word could save a nation.