* * * I saw a massive stump in Sereikiškės Park shining petrol blue blemished by brown slug trails they were enamoured, had gone mad crawling circles on its soft surface around that stump sprouted tiny little mushroom colonies: honey fungus erupting before my eyes I was surprised no one had gathered by that magical […]
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Bodies is the second book by the journalist, screenwriter, and novelist Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė. Having published her debut novel Two Lives in a Single Summer five years ago, Kavaliauskaitė makes a comeback with a collection of short stories. And this return is truly strong. The title of the book precisely describes its essence. The short stories reflect a wide
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Inside For five years, five hundred Norwegians took turns digging, until they finally joined several lakes together to form the Telemark canal, a thoroughfare over a hundred kilometres long for tourist boats and cargo ships. Lars Madsen grew up in Lunde, one of the small towns along the waterway. He lived with his parents in
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I recently read in an article that it is a myth that the Inuit have fifty words for describing snow. The author of that paper delved into the linguistic subtleties of the Inuit language, but I thought about snow. Lately, I’ve been dreaming of it too much: of windows pasted in white, of the silent
Jonas Zdanys’s The Angled Road: Collected Poems 1970-2020 covers the astonishing career of a well-known poet. After all, fifty years of anything—marriage, employment— is quite an accomplishment, and in our world today, just living that long is getting more impressive by the hour. As with any anniversary of such magnitude, a celebration is in order, and mostly
Even relatively recently, there were, from time to time, voices in the discourse of literary criticism sighing hopelessly about the present and future of Lithuanian short fiction. Due to a scarcity of published works, the identity and evolution of the Lithuanian short story has been elusive. Be that as it may, over the last decade,
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The early twentieth century analytic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is perhaps best known for his provocative statement: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Despite the poetic nature of the aphorism itself (rhyme, repetition, rhythm, parallelism), it does pose an existential challenge for a lyric poet—one who strives to give words and form to
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