From Soviet Border Guard Station to Sauna: Off-Road on Vormsi Island
One cabin was used for accommodating border guards while the other housed a projector that was large enough to light up the coastline.Continue Reading →
Answering the Call of the Bonfire: Estonia's Poetics of Endangered Species
Severe pollution threatens the entire Baltic Sea ecosystem. Blending poetry and art, a new book draws attention to Estonian wildlife at risk of disappearance.Continue Reading →
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 →
The Silenced Muse: the Life of a Murdered Jewish Lithuanian Poet
Matilda Olkin's short life and her poems stand as a testament that the fragile beauty of the written word gives us strength even in humanity’s darkest hour.Continue Reading →
Existential Fairy Tales: An Interview with Lithuanian Author Rasa Aškinytė
"The surface layer of fairy tales is simple, and it creates an illusion that we can understand them easily. It’s the same with everything in life."Continue Reading →
The State Is Not a Work of Art: Thinking about Nationalism in Tallinn
An exhibition that deals with deconstructing the notions of nationalism and the nation-state takes place at one of the most symbolically burdened locations in EstoniaContinue Reading →
A City with a VD Problem: Policing Prostitution in Tsarist Tallinn
Second only to the capital of St Petersburg in incidence of syphilis and gonorrhoea, Tallinn outranked much larger cities in the Russian Empire in terms of infection.Continue Reading →
Being Non-Binary in a Language Without Gendered Pronouns – Estonian
Gendered languages pose problems for identity expression. But what about genderless languages? Does Estonian offer a natural home for the nonbinary?Continue Reading →
Reading Between Kopli's Lines: Exploring Tallinn's Vanishing Slum
"For the adventurer, photographer, urban explorer or historian, Kopli Lines are a beautifully preserved window into the past."Continue Reading →
A Minnesotan Writing in Estonian: An Interview with Adam Cullen
"Something to be preserved at all cost is the connection to this place – that’s the reason it’s Estonian literature, and not Latvian or French literature."Continue Reading →