War and Justice Ukraine
Finished reading Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary (St. Martin’s Press, 2025). The author was killed before she could complete it, but it is still an important little book. It provides insights into Ukrainian cultural and psychological responses to the war, links between past and present generations of Ukrainian cultural producers, and efforts to record war crimes for future accountability. It offers ruminations not only on legal accountability but also on the relationship among memory, narrative, and justice. In this way, her thoughts are about Ukraine, but also about people more generally.