Kyiv continued to hold its annual book festival this year despite Russian attacks. In Ukraine, book publication is seen as self-defense and reading as resistance.
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Tag Archives: genocide
A Book Fair in War-Torn Ukraine
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged “Local Heroes", Book Arsenal, Russia-Ukraine War, Thomas Lynch, Ukraine Leave a comment
Weeping for Ukraine’s Lost Children
Ukraine longs for its kidnapped children as the Rachel captain in “Moby Dick” longs for his son, lost at sea.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Herman Melville, International Criminal Court, Moby Dick, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukrainian children, war crimes Comments closed
Manskinner Boris & Putin’s Terror Tactics
Russian atrocities in Ukraine bring to mind Boris the Manskinner, from Murakami’s “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged atrocities, Haruki Murakami, Russo-Ukrainian War, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Comments closed
Trump Uses Genocidal Language
Trump’s use of the language of ethnic cleansing regarding the Kurds is not new. Clifton’s poem about cockroaches shows how dangerous it is.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "at last we killed the roaches", Donald Trump, Kurds, Lucille Clifton Comments closed