I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes from a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman

Kate Tsurkan is the founding editor of&nbsp;Apofenie&nbsp;magazine.

Kate Tsurkan

Where Coca-Cola Is Synonymous with Freedom: On Margarita Gokun Silver’s “I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales)”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Stanislav Aseyev (b. 1989) is a writer and journalist from Donbas, Ukraine, who for two years following Russia’s invasion of Eastern Ukraine authored unbiased reports about the on-the-ground reality in occupied Donbas for media outlets in Ukraine under the penname Stanislav Vasin. In June 2017, Aseyev disappeared, having been kidnapped and unlawfully imprisoned by militants from the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Sentenced to fifteen years on trumped up terrorism charges, Aseyev spent thirty-two months in unsanctioned Donetsk prisons, where he was brutally and routinely tortured. The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, a memoir of his imprisonment and an exposé of the DPR’s unground prison system, was published in Ukrainian in 2020 and is excerpted below. In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas, a collection of Aseyev’s reportages from war-torn Donetsk, will be available in English in late summer from The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Aseyev is also the author of the novel The Melchior Elephant, or the Man Who Thought, a collection of poetry, and a play. He is the recipient of the 2020 Free Media Award, the 2020 National Freedom of Expression Award, and the 2021 Taras Shevchenko National Prize for his journalistic writings.

Stanislav Aseyev

Violence and Hope in Ukraine: Stanislav Aseyev’s “The Torture Camp on Paradise Street”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

The Wife Who Wasn’t

The So-Called Greatest Country in the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Carbide

Life Went on Anyway

The Soul of Post-Maidan Ukraine: On Andriy Lyubka’s “Carbide” and Oleg Sentsov’s “Life Went on Anyway: Stories”

Kate Tsurkan is the founding editor of&nbsp;Apofenie&nbsp;magazine.