The Ukraine Shelf: What to Read about Ukraine

In the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion, The Ukraine Shelf podcast brings together leading writers and thinkers for lively, informed discussion on what we should be reading to better understand Ukraine during this crucial period.

Today, the hosts – Olesya Khromeychuk (director of the Ukrainian Institute London and author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister) and literary translator and scholar Uilleam Blacker – chat to Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Culture and journalist Bohdana Laiuk, and Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins, author of Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War.