Yuliya Komska is associate professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. A native of Ukraine, Komska is the author of The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Yuliya Komska

To Overcome Shouting into the Void: A Conversation with Jae Nichelle

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

The Parents of Curious George

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

The Words That Don’t Kill: Interview with Tetiana Savchynska

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

Around the World

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

Fiction

Yuliya Komska is associate professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. A native of Ukraine, Komska is the author of The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border (University of Chicago Press, 2015).