Post by Chytomo

Chytomo’s articles to read instead of scrolling. Sometimes we open social media for “just a minute” — and suddenly spend an hour scrolling without remembering a single thing we saw. Chytomo gathered a few English-language reads for a slower and more mindful kind of pause. In our selection: articles about Ukrainian literature, translation, cultural memory and publishing markets. - Yuri Andrukhovych on irony during war, “quarantining” Russian culture, and why he believes in Ukrainian victory — a conversation about humour, seriousness and the danger of losing playfulness even in wartime (by Jared Goyette) https://lnkd.in/dXhpQWPi - Eugenia Kuznetsova’s bestsellers “Ask Miechka”, “The Ladder” and “Sheep Are Safe” — and how her lively, ironic prose turns family chaos, escape from reality and wartime dilemmas into stories that feel both deeply local and widely relatable (by Tetyana Petrenko) https://lnkd.in/dC4U8v52 - Why Ukrainian literature is witnessing a renaissance of the short story form — and how short prose has become one of the ways contemporary writers respond to fragmented, unstable times (by Illya Rudiyko) https://lnkd.in/dVUuw46h - A journey into Greece’s reading and publishing culture: a market shaped by crisis, limited public libraries, strong poetry, children’s publishing and literature more complex than “resort reading” (by Iryna Baturevych) https://lnkd.in/dVSuvnix - The story of the Ukrainian Press Bureau in London, founded in 1931 to inform Western audiences about Ukraine and the Holodomor through bulletins, journalism and political advocacy (by Mykola Tymoshyk) https://lnkd.in/dedH3prm Save this post for the next time the feed feels endless and choose a text that stays with you longer than another scroll. And support independent cultural journalism on Patreon https://lnkd.in/egSDjBqh