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a Kind of Refugee / 09.12.2023
BURNOUT feels like listlessness a dull knot in the stomach because there is so much that needs to be done that your mind melts even beginning to think…
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Happy Thanksgiving from a Kind of Refugee!
a Kind of Refugee is tired. Am I the only one who is spectacularly failing to keep up with all the “theaters”—virtual and even in real life—that I…
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a Kind of Refugee / 22.10.2023
There are perks that come with being a versatile translator. Last weekend I went to the shooting range with a group of foreign volunteers. They’d driven…
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a Kind of Refugee / 13.10.2023
There are events that you cannot wrap your head around: they reverberate through your whole body. It takes time for them to settle, for the turbulence…
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a Kind of Refugee / 22.09.2023
Hello from Kyiv! Writing the contextual background for my book of a Kind of Refugee dispatches from the first year after russia’s full-scale invasion…
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a Kind of Refugee / 31.08.2023
In lieu of a regular dispatch, I’d like to share three poems by Victoria Amelina that I translated for the London Ukrainian Review…
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a Kind of Refugee / 19.08.2023
There are Polish flags everywhere when I arrive on August 15. It’s Armed Forces Day—a Polish national holiday. A small party has gathered at Anka’s…
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a Kind of Refugee
a newsletter from Ukraine about moving from place to place, dancing between flight and fight
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