The Quiet Courtesies of Riga: Learning to Share Space in a Small Capital
"For someone arriving from a city where queues are either aggressively policed or completely absent, this gentler discipline can be disorienting"Continue Reading →
"Yelling Hysterically and Incoherently": Chaos and Culture in '90s Riga
"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 →
Through the Gaps in the System: Arvo Pärt and the Soviet Underground
"Pärt is still widely regarded as an isolated, solitary figure who appeared out of nowhere in 1980s Berlin, his crystalline musical language already fully formed"Continue Reading →
Dreaming by the Sea: Latvia's Coast Off-Season
"The people of those landscapes, both from Tranströmer's coast and from our own, have been looking at the surface of this sea for thousands of years"Continue Reading →
The Third Star Shining: Making Culture in Latgalian
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 →