🇦🇺 Australia 18h ago · Charlotte Higgins in Kyiv

Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war

The Guardian Australia
Guardian Australia edition
View Channel →
Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war
Source ↗ 👁 0 💬 0
Visitors flock to Book Arsenal in Ukraine’s capital as wartime writing takes centre stageIt was a literary festival, all right, but if your reference for such things is Hay-on-Wye and Edinburgh, or Melbourne and Sydney, or New York and Washington DC, then at Kyiv Book Arsenal you might think you had slipped through a crack in the universe and landed in an alternative reality.For a start, they were so young, the audience members. Dressed in their considerable best, they clutched their bags of boo

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

Immigration picking up the slack as Australia’s fertility rate sinks to all-time low
7NEWS · 14h ago
Monaco Grand Prix: Formula One – live updates
The Guardian · 14h ago
French Open 2026: Flavio Cobolli v Alexander Zverev, men’s singles final – live
The Guardian · 14h ago
Delays, lost parcels and ‘attempted deliveries’: Why Australians keep complaining about Australia Post
7NEWS · 14h ago
Umpires ‘completely conned’ by Harry McKay’s faux shot at goal in dying stages of AFL thriller
7NEWS · 14h ago
Diplomat, sonographer lauded for enhanced Pacific ties
The West Australian · 14h ago