Kostiantyn Rodyk

The words “European sensation” are written on the front cover of this book’s Russian translation. They are accurate: if the British are surprised, so is the rest of Europe. Readers in ‘Great Book-reading Britain’ were genuinely astonished at the fact that the author, a 60-year-old immigrant who had...

“The situation is critical. A boiler has burst. A carload of nails is rotting under elevator. The underpants workshop is stranded without cement.” Volodymyr Dibrova’s words can be used to review the main points of the draft Program in Support of Ukrainian Books and Reading, the brainchild of...

The Ukrainian president recently issued an order “On Individual Measures to Develop Book Publishing in Ukraine.” Unfortunately, the title of this order only further perpetuates the traditional attitude of officials to book publishing as though it were a national craft, like Opishnia pottery. This...

The journal of foreign literature, Vsesvit [Universe] has just marked its 80th anniversary. The most striking thing about the gala night to celebrate this milestone was the glaring absence of any representatives from the Ministry of Culture or the State Committee for Television and Radio...

< The book, Day and Eternity of James Mace, belongs to the most unexplored of all literary genres, the only of its kind that, instead of attracting a mass readership, tells the reader, “Move on, don’t linger; you won’t find anything interesting here; this is just a compilation of articles,...