Ambrose Akinmusire and Jazz in the Smoldering City: A Dispatch From Kyiv
Ambrose Akinmusire was coming to Kyiv to play a gig at "Closer", a jazz and electronic music venue a few minutes' walk from my flat. What the hell?
Don't get me wrong: I love Kyiv, and my neighborhood is one of the finest inner-urban settings a writer could ask for in which to put his ass in the chair, but Kyiv, as a city, as a center of . . .
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Svetlana Alexievich Is No Useful Idiot
Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 for work she has produced over the last 30 years chronicling the troubled history of the USSR. What you see here is my interview with her and my further consideration of her importance to world culture; the piece was released originally on 23 May 2016 at . . .
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