Like Troy, Lviv was sieged and attacked ferociously, repeatedly across its long history. It has been a war zone, a battleground, the heart of vicious internecine or multi-ethnic co
Thursday 5 Oct 2017, 7-8:30 pm, British Library, Knowledge Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Book here How can literature reconcile the personal with the national, even inter
In the later stages of Żanna Słoniowska’s exceptional The House with the Stained-Glass Window, the novel’s narrator is escorted through the Ukrainian city of Lviv by her olde
