Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNo One Talks About the War (with author Nina Kossman)
Show Notes:
This week, Nina Kossman joins the podcast to talk about her upcoming book, No One Talks About the War: Travels in Ukraine During the War. …
10 hours ago
Ukrainian Literary Modernism (with Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk)
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This week, Cameron dives into the various forces in Ukrainian literature, theory, and criticism shortly after the turn of the 20th century…
3 weeks ago
Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)
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This week, Jake Zawlacki joins Cameron to talk about his translation of Akhmet Baitursynov's Mosquito. Although it's appearing in English …
1 month, 1 week ago
Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya
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This week, Cameron (finally) dives into Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna. A novel about the Great Terror written during the Great Terror…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)
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This week, on For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher's Crossing, a cautionary tale about how readin…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today
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This week, Cameron dives into Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” a dramatization of one chapter of Vasily Grossman’s Life an…
5 months ago
PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman
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This week, you and Cameron get into some PREP WORK for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which dr…
6 months ago
A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)
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This week, Dr. José Vergara returns to the podcast to talk about Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools. The novel, first published in English…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43
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This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur, covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally arrive in the…
7 months ago
Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko
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This week, Cameron returns to the beginning of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian Trilogy with “Zvenihora.” The film, released in 1928, explo…
7 months, 3 weeks ago