Playing Leaptiger: Estonian Innovations in Education
That in 2025 Estonia would be a global leader across multiple domains is not happenstance, but due to long-term investmentContinue Reading →
Making Oneself at Home in an Estonian Forest
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 →
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
"“[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
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 →