Petras Cvirka – the Lithuanian Writer Lionised by the Soviets
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 →
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Up the Baltick with Boswell and Johnson
"Marienburg is a vast city equal in size with London, planned with perfect regularity both architecturally and in its social organization."Continue Reading →
So Long Is the Road: Pärnu After Christmas
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 →
Two Years of Tracking Down Imaginary Latvians
"Imaginary Latvians always seem to make “cameo appearances,” popping up when you least expect it."Continue Reading →
“Comfortable Doesn’t Interest Me”: Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė
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 →
Vattafakarjütäkkinkabõut? Autumn Adventures in Estonian English
Many Estonian children have learned English from watching Cartoon Network. And also from YouTube and other quality sources of Shakespeare's tongue.Continue Reading →
Nine Months of Deep Baltic, or See You in September
Deep Baltic is taking August off while we work on a few big changes to the site, but we hope you’ll be back for more in September. In the meantime, we…Continue Reading →
Experimental and Extraterritorial: Riga’s Russian-Language Orbita Group
For almost 15 years, the Orbita group of Riga-based Russian-speaking poets have been redefining Russian-language poetry in Latvia.Continue Reading →
The Way We Lived Then
"To stay alive, to survive, took the greatest effort. It was the one activity that we all engaged in."Continue Reading →
Fiction – This Is Not My Sky
"Mama,” Cathy murmured into Maria's ear, “why did you give me away?”Continue Reading →
Fiction: Baltic Byline
“It's twenty years since this country regained its independence from Moscow,” Van Horren said...Continue Reading →
Fiction: “The Saviour of Lasnamäe”
Natalya Filippovna may be a middle-aged single mother and member of the Russian minority in Estonia, but she is content with her simple life.Continue Reading →