Jonty Claypole
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Secret Life of Books · Charlotte Higgins on Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War · 21 Aug 2026
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There are writers who you talk about in the book as people having a very uncomfortable relationship with.
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On one hand, they may have grown up studying them and they may love their work, but they've sort of moved them up to the top shelf of of
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the bookcase.
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It's like not now.
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We may come back at a certain point.
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So what would be some books or or writers that everyone should go and read, both for pleasure but also as an act of resistance to the Russianification of Ukrainian culture?
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And I'm gonna add one more uh one more recommendation to this list, which is Charlotte Higgins's Ukrainian lessons, Art in a Time of War.
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It's a completely wonderful book.
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And actually it's just a great way of also encountering Ukrainian writers and poets and as a departure point into some of those works as well.
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So, you know, Charlotte, congratulations.
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It's it's a brilliant book and thank
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you so much for coming on Secret Life of Books to talk about it.
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Sophie, I think it's fair to say that we've almost bitten off more than we can chew with this book, haven't we?
We had to park this episode a week, we had to d delay it.
And the question is, have we got it?
Have we are we on top of it now?
Or it's the half masticated gristle that appears halfway through in a particular restaurant that Leopold Bloom decides not to eat in and roast beef and cabbage is there.
Roast beef and cabbage.
I am John T.
Claypole.
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