"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 →
"I know who I was in my previous lives (although I might have mixed up the order of events)..."Continue Reading →
If I had a car/ if we had time/ I'd take you/ first to a ferry/ and then/ over sea/ island-bound...Continue Reading →
"There’s no doubt that Mendel and I, more than anyone else, wanted to get to Russia as soon as possible..."Continue Reading →
The Song of the Stork tells the story of Yael, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl separated from her family on the Polish-Lithuanian border during World War IIContinue Reading →
Hide and Seek; Būda, Lithuania; November, 1950Continue Reading →
Born into a poor farming family in 1909, Cvirka's tangled legacy forms a metaphor for all the paradoxes and complexities of the Soviet era in Eastern Europe.Continue Reading →
"Marienburg is a vast city equal in size with London, planned with perfect regularity both architecturally and in its social organization."Continue Reading →
Pärnu is Estonia's most beautiful city. Airy parks, giant trees, and castle-like villas that call out to you with their back staircase secrets.Continue Reading →
"Imaginary Latvians always seem to make “cameo appearances,” popping up when you least expect it."Continue Reading →
Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė’s novel Breathing into Marble is a dark, compelling tale of a family torn apart and a woman driven to the edge of madness.Continue Reading →
Many Estonian children have learned English from watching Cartoon Network. And also from YouTube and other quality sources of Shakespeare's tongue.Continue Reading →
