Born in Kyiv in 1973, Lilya graduated from the Film Studies Department of the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary. Her writing was published in Russian-language literary periodicals, including Artikulyatsiya, Literatura, Dvoeotochie, and Soloneba. She started drawing 10 years ago, without any formal training. She still lives in Kyiv.
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.
A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.
Sailor, artist, lawyer, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of Soviet spies operating in the West between the World Wars. He seduced women to learn great secrets of foreign states, but was then arrested and tortured in the Gulag, where he began to document the crimes against humanity of the regime he had served.
This book features biographies of the author’s family members, detailing with the effect of the war on their lives.
