Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war

Visitors flock to Book Arsenal in Ukraine’s capital as wartime writing takes centre stageIt was a literary festival, all right, but if your reference for such things is Hay-on-Wye and Edinburgh, or Melbourne and Sydney, or New York and Washington DC, then at Kyiv Book Arsenal you might think you had slipped through a crack in the universe and landed in an alternative reality.For a start, they were so young, the audience members. Dressed in their considerable best, they clutched their bags of boo...