With Madonna in Kyiv: Why Literature Still Matters (More Than Ever) and Other Selected Non-Fiction
Askold Melnyczuk
Dec 2026 · Harvard University Press - T
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Collected here for the first time are selected essays, reviews, and remembrances by the award-winning Askold Melnyczuk—novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and editor—who has, for half a century, played an active role in shaping the American literary conversation. Articulating an unwavering faith in the civilizing power of literature, Melnyczuk’s With Madonna in Kyiv brings together meditations on the literary arts alongside recollections of writer-friends Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Oksana Zabuzhko, and others. This ardent, wide-ranging volume also includes pieces on writers such as Samuel Beckett, Grace Paley, Elias Khoury, Julian Barnes, Milan Kundera, Olga Tokarczuk, Delmore Schwartz, Alvaro Mutis, Orhan Pamuk, Chinua Achebe, Lesia Ukrainka, Vasyl Stus, and Volodymyr Dibrova.
Collected here for the first time are selected essays, reviews, and remembrances by the award-winning Askold Melnyczuk—novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and editor—who has, for half a century, played an active role in shaping the American literary conversation. Articulating an unwavering fait...
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Askold Melnyczuk is a professor in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts and the founding editor of both the literary journal AGNI and Arrowsmith Press. His novels include What Is Told, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Ambassador of the Dead, a Best Books of the Year selection by the Los Angeles Times. His most recent book is a story collection, The Man Who Would Not Bow.
Askold Melnyczuk is a professor in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts and the founding editor of both the literary journal AGNI and Arrowsmith Press. His novels include What Is Told, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Ambassador of the Dead, a Best Books of the Year selection ...
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