Fiction: Jaroslavas Melnikas – "The Grand Piano Room"
"What was strange was not the fact that the piano room had disappeared, but that it had ever actually existed"Continue Reading →
Siluett: the Estonian Fashion Magazine that Took the USSR by Storm
Launched in 1958 by the Tallinn Fashion House, Siluett was arguably the one truly agenda-setting fashion magazine the Soviet Union produced.Continue Reading →
A Dream in the Latvian Countryside: Remaking the National Painter's House
In 1998, Dutch museologist Margriet Lestraden bought the remote birth house of "the father of Latvian art", a man she then knew nothing about.Continue Reading →
Fiction: Nora Ikstena – Soviet Milk
"I don’t remember 15 October 1969. There are people who swear they remember their birth. I don’t."Continue Reading →
A Hive of Activity: Discovering Riga's Underground Music Scene
Richard Thompson gives an introduction to the underground scene of Latvia's capital, a city where every week brings something intriguing and boundary--pushingContinue Reading →