by Hoha
Noha is a Ukrainian magazine founded in 2020 by editors Liza Biletska and Philip Olenik. It focuses on literary documentary, a genre that blends factual narratives with artistic expression. This includes essays, memoirs, diaries, poetry, and experimental texts that explore personal and collective experiences.
2024, 93pp., 175x250 mm, Softcover, Ukrainian.
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The second issue of Noha was published in June 2024, featuring texts written between 2021 and 2022, prior to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The issue opens with a piece by Darina Malyuk in which she reflects on the desires for certain items—clothes, accessories, pointe shoes—and the irrevocable loss of the chance to acquire them.
Inesa Marg describes the killing of an aged goat and its transformation into food.
Nazar Benytskyi recalls his childhood and a time in an orphanage. His notebook entries alternate between memories and diary-like records of attempts to build an autonomous life on an island.
Aliona Dumasheva continues her account of being imprisoned in Russia, now focusing on the lives of female inmates in Vladimirskaya Colony.
Anton Polunin, in poetic form, bequeaths one valuable item to us.
Liza Biletska recounts her encounter with a company that offers elderly people “lifetime care” services in exchange for their apartment inheritance.
Philip Olenik relays stories of Nigerians and Ukrainians of Nigerian descent.
Finally, Darina Malyuk’s opening text was written in 2020, and her closing piece reflects on her life in 2023.
The cover features a visual work by Katia Libkind.