Death in Reval: The Tallinn of Werner Bergengruen
One of the reasons for Bergengruen’s obscurity in Germany today might be that his writing is rich and sometimes too colourful, almost baroque in his descriptionsContinue Reading →
One of the reasons for Bergengruen’s obscurity in Germany today might be that his writing is rich and sometimes too colourful, almost baroque in his descriptionsContinue 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 →
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 →
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish controlContinue Reading →