Ukrainian Lessons by Charlotte Higgins review – when art and war collide
A vivid and hopeful study of how culture endures in the midst of extreme violenceTowards the end of her subtly piercing book about art in wartime, Charlotte Higgins recounts an autumn visit to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, in the north-east of the country, a short drive from the Russian border. In a tranquil park, she sees a man standing in a stream, making stones balance on top of each other in a teetering tower – “a metaphor of life in…
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