Oh, to belong. I see a little girl hugging a Sunshine Family doll that is a flat-chested mom (the doll comes complete with a husband, two children and a house) while the little girl’s friends dance their leggy Barbies with their impossible boobs and stiletto-ready feet closer to the Ken dolls that are packaged separately.
Reflections on belonging Read More »
Some time ago I wrote an essay called Už konteksto ribų (Outside of Context), where I wrote about the freedom of writers (and humans in general) and about ‘belonging’ to a context as both a good thing and a problem. Today, I’d title that essay Tarp kontekstų—Between Contexts. Although that’s the same thing. I believe
One Can Only Belong to the Heavens Read More »
I am a furious code-switcher. When you are comfortable in two or more languages, code-switching comes naturally. As you seek to express yourself in one language, but know that the person you are addressing is also multilingual, your subconscious mind scans your inner vocabulary, picking and choosing the perfect word to convey exactly what you
On Identity and Acceptance Read More »
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Donaldas Kajokas – On Life Read More »
“I consider myself a poetry barbarian—my poems tend do have a certain rhythm, a passion,” says Kornelijus Platelis, the author of The Most Creative Book of 2018, during his interview with a national broadcaster. His tenth collection of poems, entitled Įtrūkusios mėnesienos (Cracked Moonlight), was recognized as the most creative book of the year by the Institute
Cleansing the Pool of Memory Read More »
Burning a Life “Addresses”, postcards, greetings, “For the birth and resurrection of the Most Holy Jesus”, prescriptions, blood tests, cardiograms, (I file her letters in a separate folder), clothes both worn-out and almost new, dentures, x-rays, bank cards, receipts, bouquets of dried flowers (so that their shapes, seeping as smoke through the walls of this
Kornelijus Platelis Read More »
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Gintaras Grajauskas – Whatever They Say, What Matters Is How It Really Is Read More »
As we begin our conversation, I am thinking about how the profession of a translator, if it were to be compared to that of a writer, receives much less attention in the public eye, yet the translator’s role in literary and cultural processes is no less significant. As you are both a translator and a
Translation: It’s Like Acting, Minus Brad Pitt Read More »
“Language is the home of being”—I don’t remember what grade it was in which we had to write an essay under this title. I no longer remember what I wrote, only that this topic overwhelmed me, as I see now, for a long time. Still a child, I was tormented by a question which I
Writing with an Accent Read More »
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Benediktas Januševičius – Maybe Everything Has Already Been Written Read More »
