Tag Archives: Russian Invasion of Ukraine

In Betraying Ukraine, Graham Is an Oswald

In betraying Ukraine, Sen. Lindsey Graham is showing a sycophancy to Trump that is similar to that of Oswald for Goneril.

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Ukraine: What Would Leo and Fyodor Do?

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s novels work as indictments of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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A Murakami Villain Surfaces in Ukraine

Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine bring to mind Boris the Mankiller in Murakami’s “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”

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Hemingway on What War Atrocities Mean

Undisciplined conscripts are likely to commit atrocities–and also, as Hemingway notes in “Farewell to Arms,” to lose.

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Finding Lyrical Beauty in the Midst of War

A gorgeous lyric by Ukrainian poet Zhadan counters Putin’s tyranny with a reminder of Ukraine’s poetic soul.

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A Call to Resist Oppression

Kaminsky’s poem “We Living Happily During the War,” while not written for the Russian invasion, could well be applied to it–and to ourselves.

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