“My Final Territory: Selected Essays,” by Yuri Anrukhovych. Translated by Mark Andryczyk and Michael M. Naydan. Toronto.: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 170 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0171-6. $30-$40, hardcover; $20-$38, e-book.
Yuri Andrukhovych, one of Ukraine’s pre-eminent authors and cultural commentators, is credited with having renewed Ukrainian poetry in the mid-1980s. “My Final Territory” is a collection of 12 of his essays – 10 appearing for the first time in English. Touching on fields including philosophy, history, journalism, political science, sociology and anthropology, they are meant to demonstrate his enormous talent as an essayist to the English-speaking world and provide insight into the Ukrainian experience of nationality and identity.