That’s It Where the blood was flowing There the rose is growing. – Lithuanian folk song Death is the failure of breath no, sorry, not the failure, but the end. During these days of Russia’s war in Ukraine I often forget to breathe, I always catch myself in a sigh, trying to breathe more deeply
A Modern-Day Book Smuggler In Conversation with Birutė Putrius Laima Vincė: Tell me about your Lithuanian heritage. Birutė Putrius: That’s an interesting question and one that I’ve been thinking about for years. Even in my book Lost Birds, the very first story is called “Becoming American” because many who came from the displaced person’s camps had one
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interviewed by Saulius Vasiliauskas filmed by Oskaras Abramavičius edited by Oskaras Abramavičius and Saulius Vasiliauskas translated by Markas Aurelijus Piesinas financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture Copyright: Vilnius Review All rights reserved
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1. It seemed to many at the theatre that Odin the director had not died of a heart attack. Even though that was the official version. It seemed to many at the theatre that he had died because he chose the wrong Word. As the Bible says, in the beginning was the Word. And
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Even though the cliché metaphor teaches us to never judge a book by its cover, the minimalistic pastel-blue soft cover of Tadas Zaronskis’s collection of poems leaves little to be judged even if we wanted to. While A Coloring Book for Friends is considered his debut, it has been a long time coming. With his first poems
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waking up, complaining yes once again i won’t start something endless the whole day will bode brevity the end will have arrived into things so taking anything up won’t be worth it really open your eyes do you see how the children we could now beget without any
interviewed by Saulius Vasiliauskas filmed by Oskaras Abramavičius edited by Oskaras Abramavičius and Saulius Vasiliauskas translated by Markas Aurelijus Piesinas subtitles edited by Deimantė Kukulienė financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture Copyright: Vilnius Review All rights reserved
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MŪZA O. SVETICKAITĖ I was born in 2004 in Palanga, where I was raised. Currently I’m living in Vilnius, where I study philosophy at Vilnius University. I find myself fixed between the primordial sea and the network of urban structures, the solitude and the comfort of libraries and movie theaters, and attempts to disentangle the
Poetry Debuts: Mūza O. Svetickaitė, Lilija Rakova, Kšištofas Kšivecas Read More »
Mantas Adomėnas’s spy novels – both the first and the second part of The Coin and the Labyrinth – have been at the top of the Lithuanian bookstore charts for half a year now, alongside the books of influencers and health gurus, the newly revived Dune by Frank Herbert, and the somewhat stale pearls of wisdom by Paulo Coelho.
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Alvydas Šlepikas holds a reputation in the Lithuanian literary scene as a versatile author, a writer proficient in all genres of literature. After reading his short fiction, his novel, and poetry collection, I am personally convinced of this. What is the secret to Šlepikas’s success? He takes his time in publishing books and maintains a
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