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Svetlana Alexievich

Critical Essays

Svetlana Alexievich’s Verbatim Theater
ByCarla Baricz October 24, 2023August 4, 2025

In her exploration of the Chernobyl disaster, Svetlana Alexievich dramatizes history—as she insists, we can only understand events of this magnitude by recasting them on a human scale.

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Critical Essays

Iconography of a Disaster: Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl
ByCassandra Farrin July 3, 2017July 7, 2025

Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, about the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, opens with Lyudmilla Ignatenko, whose husband Vasily was one of the first firefighters to respond to the scene.

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