Browsing: New releases

NEW YORK – The first New York screening of the Ukrainian fantasy-historical film “The Amulet of the Kingdom” (Oberih Natsiyi)…...

“Cyborg” by Wolodymyr Mohuchy, Xlibris Publishing, 2021. ISBN: 9781664191631 (softcover), $17.99, and ISBN: 9781664191648 (hardcover), $31.99, 240 pp; ISBN: 9787664191624…...

“A Russian in Berlin,” by Alexander J. Motyl, Quamquam Quidquid Press, 2021. ISBN: 9798766292579 (softcover), $10, 166 pp, and ISBN:…...

CHICAGO – Can a Russian-speaking, Soviet-raised, Kharkiv-born woman, who spent her childhood summers in Russia singing Russian folk songs with her Russian grandmother, be Ukrainian? For Forbes journalist and editorial director Katya Soldak, it took a decade of soul-searching travel between Brooklyn and Kharkiv to answer that question.

This past summer, the Ukrainian National Museum hosted its first live event in over a year, during which Ms. Soldak shared her intimate journey in her feature-length documentary “The Long Breakup” with 50 viewers.

“Pitun’s Last Stand: An Entertainment about the Fall of Russia,” by Alexander Motyl. Published independently, 2021. 189 pp. ISBN 979-87178-26198. Paperback, $10.

This attractive and colorful publication is the ninth annual booklet in a series (2011-2020) devoted to the archaeological and historical research of Baturyn, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

NEW YORK – Rutgers University professor Alexander Motyl has published his latest novel, Pitun’s Last Stand, a Graham-Greenesque “entertainment” about serious events in Russia.

“Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World,” by Anna Procyk. Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 273 pp. ISBN 978-1-4875-0508-0. Hardcover, $75.

MONTREAL – The French-language educational version of the documentary film “Le Génocide d’une nation,” produced and directed by Yurij Luhovy, has been made and released on DVD. Narrated by international acclaimed actress Geneviève Bujold, the 26-minute school version will be an important addition to French-language resource material for educators in the teaching of the Holodomor worldwide.

The DVD’s June release marked the 10th anniversary of the Province of Quebec recognizing the Holodomor as genocide. On June 3, 2010, the Quebec National Assembly, in a third and final reading, unanimously passed Bill 390, “An Act to proclaim Ukrainian Famine as Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day.” Attending this historic event in Quebec City was Ukraine’s former Ambassador to Canada Ihor Ostash, with members of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) Montreal Branch and Montreal’s Ukrainian community.

“Pryhody Gnomyka Romtomtomyka (The Adventures of Romtomtomyk the Gnome) by Roman Zavadovych, in Ukrainian, with illustrations by Edward Kozak. Lviv: Rodovid, 2019, 40 pp. $8.

Thanks to the efforts of the Plast sorority Pershi Stezhi, a beloved children’s character has become available to new generations.

“Your Ad Could Go Here,” by Oksana Zabuzhko; translated by Halyna Hryn, Askold Melnyczuk, Nina Murray, Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban; edited by Nina Murray. Seattle, Wash.: Amazon Crossing, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5420-2252-1, softcover, 270 pp., $14.95. (Also available in hardcover and as an e-book.)

Oksana Zabuzhko, author of “Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex,” has published a new short story collection. In “Your Ad Could Go Here,” Ms. Zabuzhko explores the ties that bind sisters, parents and children, friends and lovers, husbands and wives. Her vulnerable, wise and cruel characters challenge the concept of truth and capture the strangeness of being human.

“Selected Poems,” by Oksana Zabuzhko, edited by Askold Melnyczuk with McKenzie Hurder. Medford, Mass.: Arrowsmith Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-7346416-3-9, softcover, 75 pp., $18.

This concise compilation of selected poems, 14 in all, by the noted Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko features translations of her works by Marco Carynnyk, Askold Melnyczuk, Michael Naydan, Lisa Sapinkoff, Douglas Burnet Smith, and Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps.