Insomnia: The Latvian Novel Unpublishable Under the Soviets
"The novel Insomnia ... possesses no artistic quality of any kind. In reality it is not a novel, but a pamphlet hostile towards Soviet rule."Continue Reading →
The Interwar Plan for a “Backup Lithuania”: An Interview with Karolis Kaupinis
"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."Continue Reading →
Meming in a Minority Language: Young Latgalians and the Internet
Recent research has given an overview of what young Latgalian-speaking people want to see and hear online in their languageContinue Reading →
Between Two Shores: A Visual Love Letter to the Curonian Spit
Formed almost 5,000 years ago by sand deposits and barely a mile across, the Curonian Spit extends from the coast of Lithuania into RussiaContinue Reading →
An Eccentric Cold War Education: Revisiting the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Germany
"Perhaps we did not have science labs then, or a proper gym, or even art classes, or music — other than someone cranking out polkas on an accordion... Yet I…Continue Reading →