The culture of 'Muscovite Rus' came to form from two heterogeneous sources. The seed of the religious and artistic culture reached Muscovy from southeastern Europe (Byzantium, the Balkans) through Kyiv. On the other hand, the foundation of the political and legal culture came to Muscovy from 'Ulus Jöchi', better known as the Golden Horde. As a result, the Russian "spiritual culture" took the shape of a familiar European facade, behind which a non-European state infrastructure hid.

What was concealed in the Stalin Laureate’s biography?

Odesa in the life of Yuriy Yanovskiy

On September 17, Yuriy Andrukhovych visited Kyiv to present Lithography, his new album with the band Karbido, at the Ukrainian Radio’s Recording Studio. Before that, The Ukrainian Week spoke to him about investments in culture, the new generation of writers and Ukraine’s place in the literature map of the world.

The 1920s’ Avant-garde school of artists was ultimately destroyed as class enemies—for hooliganism and pornography

The authors, the readers and the anti- bourgeois persecutors of romance novels in the 1920s

The life and death of Mike Johansen, Ukraine’s pioneer of magic realism

How Leopold von Sacher-Masoch went from writer to masochist

Writer Marina Lewycka talks about Ukrainians in the UK, her writing and the modern era of dishonest people

Ukraine was a Guest of Honour at the Festival of European Literature held November 15-18 in Cognac, France

The Ukrainian-born British writer Anna Shevchenko talks about her debut novel Bequest and history for the mass audience

Ukraine lacks adolescent books by local authors and those writing for teenagers avoid controversy and depict the world through rose-coloured glasses.

Artist and playwright Les Podereviansky talks about his personal evolution and people that never change

Ukrainian author’s detective story becomes a breakthrough hit at the Vilnius Book Fair

Myroslav Dochynets has guessed the needs of the average reader

The parameters of the classical Ukrainian literature canon have greatly changed over the past years

Yevhen Malaniuk as the Ukrainian Freud

Taras Prokhasko speaks on the fundamental elements of being, models of an ideal Ukraine and his own writings

His translations span 26 centuries, three continents and almost 30 literatures. The Soviets “awarded” him with 10 years in labor camps and the status of a dissident with no right to travel

More books for children are translated into Ukrainian than written in the language. Families seem to prefer “popular” classics and books made into Hollywood films

In the West, there is growing demand for women's literature, the favored genre of young emancipated female megalopolis residents. Ukraine also has books in this genre but they are special in their own way

Łukasz Saturczak speaks about his novel Galicia and the relationships between Ukrainians and Poles in border regions

German Writer Judith Hermann about Birth of the Text and Death in Life

Writer and film director Heliy Snehirov was unable to exist in the crushing Soviet atmosphere and paid for freedom with his life

Thomas Wohlfahrt: “Poetry can affect collective consciousness enough to inspire a protest”

Meridian Czernowitz 2011 proves that while poetry knows no boundaries, poets do

Ukrainian writers have come down with a bout of travelmania

Ivan Franko and his vision of the 20th century

August 17 was the first anniversary of the death of Oles Ulianenko, the only officially banned writer in independent Ukraine

A history of genius who refused freedom.

Writer Yuriy Vynnychuk talks about the search for new symbols, the literary famine and writers caught up in politics

In Germany, like in Ukraine, Ukrainian literature is learning the ropes of gaining an audience

“As in every cultured state, we see lights blinking here and there…”

With his split views, this national communist leader was bound to face a tragic end

Oleksandr Feldman, a dyed-in-the-wool fighter against Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism and the sponsor of a bill he introduced while still a BYuT member and which reflects this crusade, has reached new political heights

The prominent Ukrainian poet speaks on the surreal Babylon of the contemporary world, the special character of Ukrainian madness, and her first prose work