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BAXT: Andrew Miksys's Pictures of the Roma in Lithuania
BAXT: Andrew Miksys's Pictures of the Roma in Lithuania

Baxt is a Romani word thought to have Persian origins, its possible meanings covering a range of nuances from luck to destiny to karma

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Storks and Larches: Looking for the Baltic Germans' Traces
Storks and Larches: Looking for the Baltic Germans' Traces

British-born, Latvian-based writer Mike Collier's latest novel attempts to reconstruct a world that existed not too long ago

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Goodbye Eastern Europe? An Interview with Jacob Mikanowski
Goodbye Eastern Europe? An Interview with Jacob Mikanowski

"That’s what I’m pushing again – to say: no, this is a unique and uniquely rich human landscape that has had also some of the most extreme experiences in all of human history"

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Dreaming by the Sea: Latvia's Coast Off-Season
Feature Article deepbalticMarch 31, 2025 0

Dreaming by the Sea: Latvia's Coast Off-Season

"The people of those landscapes, both from Tranströmer's coast and from our own, have been looking at the surface of this sea for thousands of years"Continue Reading →

Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė: A Prescient, Once Sidelined Lithuanian Poet
culture deepbalticMarch 24, 2025 0

Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė: A Prescient, Once Sidelined Lithuanian Poet

"“[C]rude, tropically hot … menacingly rapturous”— a review by a Lithuanian critic that anathematized émigrée poet Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė"Continue Reading →

BAXT: Andrew Miksys's Pictures of the Roma in Lithuania
culture deepbalticMarch 18, 2025 0

BAXT: Andrew Miksys's Pictures of the Roma in Lithuania

Baxt is a Romani word thought to have Persian origins, its possible meanings covering a range of nuances from luck to destiny to karmaContinue Reading →

The Third Star Shining: Making Culture in Latgalian
culture deepbalticFebruary 24, 2025 0

The Third Star Shining: Making Culture in Latgalian

by Will Mawhood Travel much in the small towns and countryside of Latvia’s lake-splashed eastern borderlands, and you’ll almost definitely hear a Baltic-sounding language that isn’t quite Latvian – at…Continue Reading →

Storks and Larches: Looking for the Baltic Germans' Traces
Estonia deepbalticFebruary 13, 2025 0

Storks and Larches: Looking for the Baltic Germans' Traces

British-born, Latvian-based writer Mike Collier's latest novel attempts to reconstruct a world that existed not too long agoContinue Reading →

  • Borderland Complexities: Photos of the Baltics' Eastern Edges
  • Paper, Beer and Lighthouses: Industrial Heritage in Estonia and Latvia
  • Disco Alliance: The Latvian Synthesiser Soundtrack to a New Soviet Documentary
  • Traces of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in Tallinn
  • In Latvia’s “Egypt”: Photos on Lockdown in a Forgotten Borderland
  • Fiction: Saulius Šaltenis – Diary of a Jewish Girl
  • Absences and Reminders: Searching for Soviet Statues in the Baltics

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Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė: A Prescient, Once Sidelined Lithuanian Poet

"“[C]rude, tropically hot … menacingly rapturous”— a review by a Lithuanian critic that anathematized émigrée poet Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė"

0March 24, 2025

BAXT: Andrew Miksys's Pictures of the Roma in Lithuania

Baxt is a Romani word thought to have Persian origins, its possible meanings covering a range of nuances from luck…

0March 18, 2025

The Third Star Shining: Making Culture in Latgalian

by Will Mawhood Travel much in the small towns and countryside of Latvia’s lake-splashed eastern borderlands, and you’ll almost definitely…

0February 24, 2025

One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne

In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish control

0November 8, 2024

Borderland Complexities: Photos of the Baltics' Eastern Edges

The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and…

0November 4, 2024

A Small Town's "Belle Époque": Long-Lost Images from Interwar Latvia

"Now the time has come to bring back the forgotten reality to its deserved place... to understand that life here…

0August 31, 2023

Travel

Dreaming by the Sea: Latvia's Coast Off-Season

"The people of those landscapes, both from Tranströmer's coast and from our own, have been looking at the surface of…

0March 31, 2025

Paper, Beer and Lighthouses: Industrial Heritage in Estonia and Latvia

Industrial heritage is part of our cultural patrimony, helping us to reach a broader understanding of history and the development…

0May 19, 2023

In Search of Šmakovka: a Latvian Region’s Four Moonshine Museums

Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apart

0December 13, 2022

What I Saw Walking the Baltic Way Thirty Years On

"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"

0June 29, 2022

Traces of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in Tallinn

Estonia's capital hosted the sailing events for the 1980 Olympics, leading to a burst in construction

0June 16, 2022

Black Balsam: Latvia's National Treasure Danish Island's Liquid Pleasure

A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish island

0April 13, 2022

Interviews

Storks and Larches: Looking for the Baltic Germans' Traces

British-born, Latvian-based writer Mike Collier's latest novel attempts to reconstruct a world that existed not too long ago

0February 13, 2025

Goodbye Eastern Europe? An Interview with Jacob Mikanowski

"That’s what I’m pushing again – to say: no, this is a unique and uniquely rich human landscape that has…

0December 15, 2024

Imagining Lithuania’s Wolf Children: An Interview with Alvydas Šlepikas

"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to…

0March 2, 2022

Mapping Folklore: Mythical Creatures of the Baltics and Beyond

Vilnius University Press's "Mythical Creatures in Europe" map collects creatures from every corner of the continent

0December 7, 2021

The Interwar Plan for a “Backup Lithuania”: An Interview with Karolis Kaupinis

"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."

0June 30, 2021

The Shadow in the East: An Interview with Aliide Naylor

"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the…

0June 30, 2020
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