Kyiv

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.

Aug 24 • Hryhorii Afanasiev

Look Up, But Mind the Floor

Inside Kyiv's forgotten school, beauty survived above collapsing floors, while the lives of Horowitz, Archipenko and Walker waited beneath dust to be…

Aug 17 • Hryhorii Afanasiev

A Telephone for a Table

War teaches us to measure mornings in sirens and cities in shelters. This week, an old table reminded me that survival also requires gathering together.

Aug 10 • Hryhorii Afanasiev

What Kyiv Teaches the Body at Night

Something happened after midnight, and I want to sit beside you while my hallway, my grandmother and Kyiv reveal what survival can still really mean.

Aug 3 • Hryhorii Afanasiev

What an Architect Sees When Kyiv Burns

Between explosions, cigarettes and cups of tea, a Kyiv architect discovers that war redesigns every room, road and ordinary sound in the city he loves.

Jul 27 • Hryhorii Afanasiev

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