For Carolyn Forche, because she asked. “This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful.” –Oksana Zabuzhko *Article continues after advertisementRemove Ads “We must thank fate (and the author’s thirst for universal fame) for his not having turned to the Ukrainian dialect as a medium of expression, because then … Continue reading The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language