Holy Cats and Salted Mushrooms – ’90s Life on the Latvian-Russian Border
"I realise just now that this story about the sleigh in the winter could have happened in the 19th century as well as the 20th, and for some perhaps it…Continue Reading →
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 was rather different in comparison with the inhabitants of Berlin’s…Continue Reading →
Three Kings: The Strange, Subversive Tale of the Vilnius Jazz Trio
"Rock did very little to change anything in Cold-War Europe – jeans and hairstyles excepted. It was jazz, not rock, that acted as a meaningful conduit of change."Continue Reading →
Reflections on a Dark Lithuanian Fairytale: Translating Ričardas Gavelis
Ričardas Gavelis was one of Lithuania's best-known writers of recent decades, with a caustic and satirical vision that seems to prefigure recent eventsContinue Reading →
The Spots of Der Leopard: Latvia's Colonial History Portrayed in Art
A performance by two Dutch artists drew attention to the little-known history of Curonian colonisation in the CaribbeanContinue Reading →