Thomas Hodd is a writer and cultural critic. His work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the Literary Review of Canada, among others. His play, No Man is an Island, was recently produced by the Atlantic Repertory Company. He is also editor of A Soldier’s Place: the War Stories of Will R. Bird, as well as Mary Melville, the Psychic: a Critical Edition. He teaches at Université de Moncton.
Sessions in which Thomas Hodd participates
Thursday 25 April, 2024
"Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution.As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. Lehn, a bookseller south of Kiev, deserts the army and writes poetry to his love back home; Sablin, an adopted Mennonite-Ukrainian stableboy, runs wi...