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Stephen Komarnyckyj
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PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
Is that the latter often have antisemitic conspiracy theories including some regarding the Soviet variant of the Russian empire. See Solzhenitsyn and his lovely book on Jews in Russia. Hatred of Ukraine unites both groups.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... You can find a deviously laundered iteration of this view here. Gessen knows how to make chauvinism seem like literary sophistication. The only difference between Jewish and Gentile Russian chauvinists
A Note on Brodsky and Ukraine
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
In fact Latynina is expressing a view she has always held and that you will find among supposedly democratic Russians and fascist Russians alike.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Here's a particularly weird one where an unnamed sends Epstein a text that says "Tommy Robinson. !! good work" then almost exclusively and repeatedly talk about Goebbels and Kristallnacht for a while before pivoting to talking about blood drawing.

drive.google.com/file/d/1BgrF...
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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pagan, rebellious spirit.
The cover of "Night Music," a collection of Antonych's poetry translated by Steven Komarnyckyj
The cover of “Night Music,” a collection of Antonych’s poetry translated by Stephen Komarnyckyj
I have noted that the very act of writing in Ukrainian was political. (31/42)
December 1, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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However, many of the trees are now adorned with embroidered scarves and the photographs of people believed to be buried there. The families of the dead can at least commemorate their loss. (4/26)
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, the authorities had suppressed the truth about the mass executions of the 1930s. Symonenko would ultimately be beaten up due to his interest in the site and die of the complications caused by his injuries. (3/26)
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 PM
The tweet above is an upload and this no longer applies
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We Were The Mulvaneys is a soap opera masquerading as a novel.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
She blocked me and several other Ukrainians and Ukraine linked people there - disappointing because I had invested time reading her and she obviously does not understand why literature is a facet of this war.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM