Surveying the Front Lines: Real and Predicted l Library Chat

Ukrainian journalist Nikita Grigorov asks New Yorker war correspondent Luke Mogelson about the specifics of working on the Russian-Ukrainian war, the differences between this war and other wars of the 21st century, the post-election future of the United States, as well as his own literary ambitions and journalistic ethics.
Born in Donetsk in 1994, Nikita Grigorov moved in 2014 to Kyiv. He majored in Eastern European Studies at Taras Shevchenko National University Kyiv and attended Charles University in Prague. His work as a journalist has appeared in Ukrainian and foreign media as well as in literary anthologies. He is also the author of scripts for independent films and short plays. Together with Veniamin Belyavsky, he contributed to, translated, and edited an anthology of Ukrainian writers from Donbas Порода (“Breed”).
Luke Mogelson is an American journalist. He has contributed to The New Yorker and New York Times Magazine, covering the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th attack on the Capitol.