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 →
Moscow Dumplings: On Lithuanians and Russians
"what I remember: green lamps, green torchere shades by the bed spreading a soft light, falling on pale wood furniture..."Continue Reading →
What I Saw Walking the Baltic Way Thirty Years On
"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"Continue Reading →
Baltic Partisans on Screen: Room for Improvement
"I think that in all three programmes much too little use is made of the genuine role of women in the partisan war"Continue Reading →