by Valdur Mikita Many people have their own “home” forest in Estonia. An Estonian’s sense of home isn’t complete without a home woods. Here, a notable difference arises between Estonians…Continue Reading →
"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 →
"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 →
"“[C]rude, tropically hot … menacingly rapturous”— a review by a Lithuanian critic that anathematized émigrée poet Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė"Continue Reading →
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 →
"“[C]rude, tropically hot … menacingly rapturous”— a review by a Lithuanian critic that anathematized émigrée poet Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė"
Baxt is a Romani word thought to have Persian origins, its possible meanings covering a range of nuances from luck…
by Will Mawhood Travel much in the small towns and countryside of Latvia’s lake-splashed eastern borderlands, and you’ll almost definitely…
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish control
The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and…
"Now the time has come to bring back the forgotten reality to its deserved place... to understand that life here…
"The people of those landscapes, both from Tranströmer's coast and from our own, have been looking at the surface of…
Industrial heritage is part of our cultural patrimony, helping us to reach a broader understanding of history and the development…
Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apart
"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"
Estonia's capital hosted the sailing events for the 1980 Olympics, leading to a burst in construction
A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish island
"Pärt is still widely regarded as an isolated, solitary figure who appeared out of nowhere in 1980s Berlin, his crystalline…
British-born, Latvian-based writer Mike Collier's latest novel attempts to reconstruct a world that existed not too long ago
"That’s what I’m pushing again – to say: no, this is a unique and uniquely rich human landscape that has…
"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to…
Vilnius University Press's "Mythical Creatures in Europe" map collects creatures from every corner of the continent
"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."
