Ukraine turns thirty-five today. It is Independence Day1, which, given the neighbours, has become less a birthday than an annual act of professional stubbornness. There will be flags, jokes, memories, sirens and, because Ukrainians remain irritatingly committed to living, probably coffee before all of them. So, on this 24th of August, let us begin somewh…
The First Bell Has Not Rung Yet
On a Kyiv beach, an architect remembers the humiliation of preparing for school and imagines a neglected building becoming a place of learning again.
