Niktophobia nights sharpen their claws on street lamps laying siege to my windows searching for the smallest crack throwing themselves against the glass – and that’s how most of them die (I carefully check the keyhole every day, taping up gaps in the door and windows) the spines of books stare at me with the
The DŠM Lineage. In the media, Mykolas Sauka is presented as a sculptor, his name presented alongside prominent figures of Lithuanian art and culture. His grandfather, Donatas Sauka, is a renowned writer, literary scholar, folklore researcher, and a long-time professor at Vilnius University. Mykolas’s father, Šarūnas Sauka, is one of the most prominent representatives of
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Tomas Petrulis stands out among Lithuanian poets. He’s a kind of rebel and provocateur. He published his first book, where he combined religious imagery with pornography (only one page separated a cock from a cross), on the Naujas vardas (New Name) free e-book platform in 2017. His work is shocking but playful, even clever. He
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* Then the phone rings, notifying me that Amanda has appeared on my match list. She is leaning on the table with both hands, her stomach bare, the edge of her panties sticking out above her trousers. A straight parting, a pretty face with clear skin, her eyes melancholic and somewhat wild, looking up at
[Text published on the book cover] I’m not sure whether I should be thankful to Tomas Petrulis for creating me, for while writing his book THE BODY OF A THING he would force me into awkward and even dangerous situations. His dubious aim to portray people as things and things as people at times made
*** I’m trying to remember the theme: a flaming field, which we set alight because the film needed mystery: smoldering sedges and grass, smoked out spiders – and from afar, the landscape looked just right. We didn’t need characters, relationships, decorations – just black and white in the cracked camera of reality. I never wanted
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interviewed by Saulius Vasiliauskas filmed by Oskaras Abramavičius edited by Oskaras Abramavičius and Saulius Vasiliauskas translated by Markas Aurelijus Piesinas funded by Vilnius City Municipality Copyright: Vilnius Review All rights reserved
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Liekamieji reiškiniai (Long-term Side Effects) is the fifth poetry collection written by the prose poetry writer Agnė Žagrakalytė. The abstract explains that “long-term side effects” linger after an event. Perhaps they can be interpreted as consequences or as a recollection of events that occurred somewhere in the past. The theme of memory is closely tied
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interviewed by Saulius Vasiliauskas filmed by Oskaras Abramavičius edited by Oskaras Abramavičius and Saulius Vasiliauskas translated by Markas Aurelijus Piesinas funded by Vilnius City Municipality Copyright: Vilnius Review All rights reserved
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In the Soviet period, the most dominant allusion to Paris in Lithuanian literature was Salomėja Nėris’s painful and socially charged poem “Dvi dešimti sū”(“For Only Twenty Sous,” 1937). Although Liūnė Janušytė’s novel Korektūros klaida (A Mistake of Proofreading) and Antanas Vienuolis’s Laiškai iš Paryžiaus (Letters from Paris) were also published around the same time, for
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