2 article(s) translated from Ukrainian

from A Short History of Dance

by Marjana Savka

Listen, child, to a wise old wolf: in dance everything has its own meaning. Here we've stopped— we haven't touched, yet our breath dances in a common rhythm, always stronger and faster. We…...

Translated from Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk

Girls

by Oksana Zabuzhko

Darka saw her in the trolley, the sweaty, June-soaked trolley, brimming with people and their smells: sweet, almost corpselike, female, heavy, equestrian, yet oddly palatable, and even stimulating, sexual,…...

Translated from Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk

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