One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish controlContinue Reading →
Words Lost in the Forest: The Strange Case of "Pagan Dialects from Narew"
A chance discovery deep in a Belarusian forest gave a glimpse into the extinct Baltic language YotvingianContinue Reading →
Three Kings: The Strange, Subversive Tale of the Vilnius Jazz Trio
"Rock did very little to change anything in Cold-War Europe – jeans and hairstyles excepted. It was jazz, not rock, that acted as a meaningful conduit of change."Continue Reading →
Reflections on a Dark Lithuanian Fairytale: Translating Ričardas Gavelis
Ričardas Gavelis was one of Lithuania's best-known writers of recent decades, with a caustic and satirical vision that seems to prefigure recent eventsContinue Reading →
How Memel Germans Saw Lithuanians: Sudermann's Stories
There was a sizeable Lithuanian-speaking peasant class in that part of Prussia, although Lithuanians were considered subordinate to the German-speaking gentry and town-dwellersContinue Reading →