"In the 15th century a story first appears that the Lithuanians were descended from a group of Roman soldiers who were blown off course after leaving Britain in 55 BC"Continue Reading →
"What they were recording was the feeling of our times – that no one had any expectations of the future and no one knew what the next day would bring"Continue 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 →
