2024 Holiday Gift Guide
December 2, 2024
As gift-giving season approaches, we’re excited to share our recommendations for many different types of readers! For Story Seekers: Everyone loves a good story, and this time of year provides… READ MORE
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Ukrainian Studies Spotlight in honor of Ukrainian Independence Day 2023
August 24, 2023
This Ukrainian Independence Day, we’re pleased to present a reading list of several of our Ukrainian Studies titles. From a harrowing novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning international war correspondent Mstyslav Chernov to the first English-language synthesis of the history of one of Ukraine’s most fascinating cities, these titles, among others, capture the ongoing struggle in Ukraine, examine Ukrainian history, and celebrate its rich and diverse culture. In honor of 32 years of independence, all Ukrainian Studies titles, including those below, are 32% off with the code UKRAINE.
International Women’s Day 2022: A Selection of Women-Authored Poetry and Prose from ‘Words for War’ and ‘The White Chalk of Days’
March 8, 2022
This International Women’s Day, we’d like to not only elevate the experiences and voices of women, but also continue our spotlight on Ukraine and Ukrainian voices by pointing readers towards just a few of the women poets, translators, and authors whose work is found in The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology and Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. Both books, unprecedented collections of post-Soviet Ukrainian literature in English translation originally published in 2017, are available to read for free online here and here.
“Fearless Dots on Top of I’s”: Translators reflect on taking up the gauntlet of the early texts of Mykola Bazhan
May 5, 2021
Lev Fridman and Oksana Rosenblum, editors (with Anzhelika Khyzhnya) of the bilingual volume “Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry, here present four short excerpts from the book, with accompanying comments from the translators.
Q&A with Anastasiya Lyubas, Editor & Translator of Debora Vogel’s Blooming Spaces
November 11, 2020
The works of Debora Vogel (1900-1942), eminent Polish-Jewish writer, poet, and critic writing in Yiddish in the twentieth century, have been collected and translated by Anastasiya Lyubas in the new volume Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel. Here, Dr. Lyubas tells us more about the book, Debora Vogel, and how this project came to her.
Book of the Week: “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine”
July 6, 2020
This week we’re featuring Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine edited by Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky. The book is currently available for purchase at $12.00, $16.00, and $23.95. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
This anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity.
Book of the Week: “Brodsky Among Us” by Ellendea Proffer Teasley
June 22, 2020
This week we’re featuring Brodsky Among Us: A Memoir by Ellendea Proffer Teasley. The book is currently available for purchase at $12.00, $20.00, and $29.00. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
Brodsky Among Us is a searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.
National Poetry Month 2019: A Reading List
April 15, 2019
April is National Poetry Month! This past year, we’re pleased to have added collections of translated poetry to our catalog, along with scholarly studies of poetry. Most recently, we released Ostap Kin’s New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City, an edited bilingual collection of Ukrainian poems exploring the relationship between Ukrainian poets and New York City; Maxim Shrayer’s Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature: An Anthology, a comprehensive selection of Jewish-Russian poetry and prose from the nineteenth century to the present; and the paperback editions of Mark Andryczyk’s The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology and Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky’s Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine.
An Interview with Mark Andryczyk, Editor of The White Chalk of Days
February 8, 2018
Academic Studies Press is delighted to present this interview—our first in a series—with Mark Andryczyk, editor of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology.
The White Chalk of Days presents translations of literary works by Ukrainian authors that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.