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Book Arsenal 2026: Freedom, Responsibility and Culture in Wartime Ukraine
At Kyiv’s Book Arsenal 2026, writers, soldiers, and human rights advocates explored freedom, responsibility, memory, and culture in wartime Ukraine.
June 1, 2026
Kyiv
Book Arsenal as a Laboratory of Freedom
As democracies around the world reassess their future, Ukraine has become a place where freedom is not only defended – but reimagined for generations to come.
May 24, 2026
Books
‘The White Book’ – Ukraine Launches Guide to Navigating Russian Propaganda Minefield
The new book is offered as a manual for the democratic world.
April 6, 2026
Ukraine
Amber Heart Award for Kyiv Post Contributor
Pete Shmigel’s lifelong efforts to support Ukrainian independence through activism, journalism and literature have been acknowledged by Ukraine.
Feb. 17, 2026
Books
Book Review: Cities on the Edge: How Ukrainian Modernism Anticipated a Century of Upheaval
The early years of the USSR were tumultuous. For Ukrainian culture and literature, they were both hopeful and tragic. Two newly translated classics bring that world to English-language readers.
Dec. 27, 2025
Books
OPINION: Defending the Creation
We are the heirs of a generation who built a new world from disaster. This Christmas and New Year are a good time to reflect on their project and commit to advancing it in Ukraine and beyond.
Dec. 26, 2025
Books
Yellow Prince, Black Earth: Vasyl Barka’s Classic Holodomor Novel
“The Yellow Prince,” Ukrainian poet Vasyl Barka’s masterpiece account of Stalin’s artificial famine, is emblematic of Ukraine’s struggle not only against foreign invaders, but against evil itself.
Nov. 22, 2025
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OPINION: Yuriy Tarnawsky: Literary Exile and the Global Imagination of Ukraine
We still don’t fully grasp how many of today’s Ukrainian writers are Tarnawsky’s heirs. His invisible school stretches across continents with the same fearless tone he pioneered.
Oct. 26, 2025
Books
Book Review: The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle
Frequent Kyiv Post contributor, Dr. Orhan Dragaš, offers readers a deep-dive into the post-truth phenomenon with a new book, shedding light on Russia’s information war.
Oct. 19, 2025
Ukraine
40 Years Without Stus: How a Murder Sparked Ukraine’s Independence
Silenced by the Soviets, reborn by his people, Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus’ death in 1985 awakened Ukraine. Now, 40 years on, his voice still defies Moscow’s empire.
Sept. 5, 2025
Books
Book Review: A Ukrainian Refugee’s Story, With a Difference
Larissa Babij, “A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine.” Forward by Vladislav Davidzon.
Aug. 26, 2025
Books
Ivan Dziuba and the Legacy of the 1960s Dissident Movement
Many of the issues Ukrainian society must grapple with in its struggle for full sovereignty in face of Russian invasion have their immediate roots in the deeds and ideas of the 1960s dissidents.
July 26, 2025
Books
‘The Drone’ Stories – News That Stays News
Kyiv Post author Pete Shmigel’s collection of short fiction about people caught in the war against Ukraine is a penetrating look into how trauma is processed.
July 19, 2025
Books
The Enchanting World of Ukrainian-English Children’s Literature
The best way to learn a new language is to read children’s books, or better yet, write them. For Cockell, self-publishing allows for the quiet blossoming of his Ukrainian-English books for children.
June 21, 2025
Ukraine
OPINION: Political Thriller Writer Frederick Forsyth, Ukraine and Me
How, during the Cold War, I helped the best-selling author write a novel highlighting Ukraine’s predicament and using my biography for one of the main characters.
June 15, 2025
Ukraine
OPINION: Book Review: Odesa and Growing Up a Ukrainian Jew
Affirming Jewish roots in post-Soviet Ukrainian Odesa
May 11, 2025