This story contains spoilers for Traitor and The Silent Unseen. If you read it and enjoy it, I would love for you to donate a few dollars to a Ukrainian charity. Nova Ukraine is my go-to. Kulykiv/Kulików, Poland • May 12, 1945 I slipped out through the kitchen into the…

Read my short piece for Current on understanding the Russia-Ukraine war in its historical context — specifically, in light of the public hangings of insurgents in Soviet Ukraine. Note: Since the piece was first published on Friday (March 11), pundits on Russian state TV have explicitly called for public hangings once Ukraine is defeated.

This post has been on my mind for a while, and I finally spent some time this afternoon putting it together. These are some of my top book recommendations if you’d like to educate yourself a little more on Ukraine. …

A prequel story to The Silent Unseen L’viv (Lwów) Poland | March 2, 1942 It was so cold in the priest’s office that Kostya could see his breath on the air, but his palms were sweating. A German infantry unit was drilling out on the square. Kostya couldn’t see them…

The concussion has blown off his helmet and part of his head with it, but from where you sit, crouched on your heels at the lip of the smoking crater, still blinking double time against the white phosphorus flash, you recognize his face, which is turned toward you and which…