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Paulina Pukytė: “To me art, including writing, is a game, a provocation.”

Interviews /

Artist, writer, and curator Paulina Pukytė is one of the most original Lithuanian artists, navigating the fringes of literature and art. Her works are provocative, ironic, intertextual, and aimed at deconstructing myths and clichés. Pukytė presents a unique vantage point for observing society and guides us to reconsider our notions of literature, the functions we

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Ramūnas Liutkevičius

Poetry /

children of the white swan i don’t stream any shows. i can’t vividly compare the swan’s children with the stars of one day or elevate my personal story to an abstract summary. i could sell it as a script for bingeworthy movies. the white swan: that’s the name of a workers’ dormitory in different clothing

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The Little Swan Manifesto

Reviews /

“my name is ramūnas, i roam the mazes of the old city looking for an emergency exit in life”. Thus Ramūnas Liutkevičius introduces himself in his debut poetry book šokis įsuka šviesą (The Dance that Turns in the Light). Despite thus debut, Ramūnas Liutkevičius was already well-known to those who frequent slam poetry and spoken poetry evenings.

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A Vilnius Diary

Reflections on Belonging /

When I was asked to write an essay about translation, I knew I wouldn’t be able to elucidate upon the finer points of the craft and make a lofty defense of my profession and what it entails. Why? Because I look at the work of translation as simply work, word after word, sentence after sentence,

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Artūras Valionis

Poetry /

Clean Future about the time the sun turns its face to my window to check out what I’m doing and (speaking non-poetically) to fuck with my mind (and feelings, no doubt) every weekday late afternoon a van drives by maybe a truck (I am not quick on the take when it comes to questions of

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When the Dystopia Is Now

Reviews /

In the Western world, for two thousand years it was believed that a good work of art had to represent something that was not really there but certainly could be there. This is the foundation of mimetic representation, which even grammar school pupils are familiar with. More interesting times came in the Renaissance, when the

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Dainius Vanagas

Fiction /

I Even though you may have won the municipal elections, it didn’t guarantee you an easy political start. The minute you suggested the implementation of unemployment reform to the Council, you were immediately met with harsh opposition. Is the reality more complicated than you imagined? I don’t understand what you’re saying. The real and the

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The Library as a Community: On Blissful Wandering in Translation

Reflections on Belonging /

There are so few Greeks now in Leningrad. Joseph Brodsky There is probably no translator who has not encountered the dilemma of the untranslatable. I could say that, as a translator myself, such moments bring about existential dread and helplessness. Is the word (or saying, or the emotional or semantic charge) I am stuck on

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