LITERATURE CALENDAR
October 22
Lines We Cross: Translating Ukraine
Partnership with The Center for Fiction
Presenting Oksana Lutsyshyna and Sam Wachman
The Center for Fiction, 7-8:15PM
What happens when writers look across borders—not just national, but linguistic, generational, and personal—to tell stories that challenge dominant narratives? In this special event, Ukrainian novelist and poet Oksana Lutsyshyna joins American debut author Sam Wachman to explore the complexities of migration, queerness, and identity through fiction.
October 24
Voices of Occupation: Stories of Cultural Survival
Partnership with Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Event Center, 6-7PM
Since 2014, parts of Ukraine have lived under Russian occupation, with the 2022 full-scale invasion expanding that violence to cities like Nova Kakhovka. In this urgent and deeply personal conversation, three Ukrainian voices explore what it means to live with, remember, and resist occupation, including Olia Hercules, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, and Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed.
October 26
Ecocide in Ukraine
Book discussion with Darya Tsymbalyuk and Adriana Petryna
Teatro LATEA, 2PM
In conversation with Adriana Petryna, Darya Tsymbalyuk discusses her book on the environmental impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of War (Polity, 2025). Weaving in personal stories of growing up in the south of Ukraine, accounts of environmentalists on the grounds and analysis of media narratives, she tries to find a language to articulate what it means to inhabit a land under attack.
October 29
Endling, Ukraine, and the End of Fiction: reading and conversation with Maria Reva
Maria Reva in conversation with Razom Board Member Maria Genkin
Teatro LATEA, 6:30PM
What does it mean to survive when the world seems set on destruction? In her Booker Prize–long-listed novel Endling, Ukrainian-born Canadian author, Maria Reva explores the metaphor of the “endling” — the last of a species — to examine war, loss, and resilience. Through the lens of feminist activism, environmental awareness, and the human capacity for connection, Reva’s work illuminates how individuals and communities persist against overwhelming forces. Join us for a reading and conversation with the author as she discusses survival, memory, and the power of storytelling to resist erasure.
October 30
Poet as Witness
Poets House
10 River Terrace, New York, NY
7-8pm Poetry Readings
8-9pm Reception and Book Signing
When war shatters daily life, poetry rises as testimony. Ukrainian poets speak in words that refuse silence, tracing the lines between loss and resilience, grief and human dignity. These voices transform private sorrow into collective memory, recording, resisting, and reimagining a world against the grain of destruction.
With Anna Malihon, Irina Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk and their translators Olena Jennings, Nina Murray and Ilya Kaminsky.
Moderated by Uilleam Blacker
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