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Through the Gaps in the System: Arvo Pärt and the Soviet Underground

"Pärt is still widely regarded as an isolated, solitary figure who appeared out of nowhere in 1980s Berlin, his crystalline musical language already fully formed"

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

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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Through the Gaps in the System: Arvo Pärt and the Soviet Underground

"Pärt is still widely regarded as an isolated, solitary figure who appeared out of nowhere in 1980s Berlin, his crystalline musical language already fully formed"Continue Reading →

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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 →

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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"Continue Reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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"

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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"

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

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

Interviews

Through the Gaps in the System: Arvo Pärt and the Soviet Underground

"Pärt is still widely regarded as an isolated, solitary figure who appeared out of nowhere in 1980s Berlin, his crystalline…

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

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…

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…

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

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."