1. Elizabeth of Habsburg Where shall I start? I was still a child. 1 was white like marble, immaculate. My beauty they say was of the rarest kind. I was a stranger to this dreary land into which they married me, which was ravaged by plagues, where I had no loyal page, where a disease
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Metaphorically Speaking One of my hobbies is physics. I have a special interest in the origin and evolution of our universe, including the period of “inflation” immediately following the Big Bang. For non-science readers, “inflation” refers to a very brief and very rapid expansion of the universe from its very small (nuclear-scale) beginning. When I
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Austėja Jakas’s debut poetry collection Mėlynieji malonumai (Blue Pleasures) pulses with vivid depictions of daily life and a sensitivity to the world. The book’s editor, Gintaras Grajauskas, says that he eagerly awaited its release, explaining that “[t]hese poems aren’t as boring as some.” He praises Jakas for the way she captures reality with precision and
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The Medium (in her own voice) I see you. I see within you Around you Beyond you. My hazel eyes Circle round and round Like spirals, vortexes, Into the Beyond. My peacock shawl, My red-striped scarf, Are not simply apparel, Nor coverings for warmth… No, they are interstellar Highways into the Spirit World. The
Here comes a princess: lovely, athletic, supple, and lean her strike – like a lightning bolt. Here comes a queen: her dust jacket lined with the salt of her sweat green whiff of labour and bouts of (seemingly contained) panic fog of fatigue, burning lungs and wrists ablaze, bloody knuckles, an ocean of might, the
It’s a coincidence that DANUTĖ KALINAUSKAITĖ’S novel Baltieji prieš juoduosius (Whites Against Blacks, 2023) and JURGA TUMASONYTĖ’S novel Naujagimiai (The Newborn, 2023) were released around the same time, with similar cover designs and themes. Despite representing different generations and styles, critics have compared the two authors’ works with one another. The books have also received widespread praise. With this
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Sigitas Parulskis is one of the most prolific and widely translated contemporary Lithuanian writers. Literary scholars and critics classify his work as postmodernist, highlighting his ironic, grotesque style and his exploration of the traumatic experiences of a nation and a generation. Parulskis’s eighth novel, Kaip aš mečiau (How I Quit), stays true to these themes.
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9 When it all started, when I started to smoke and why, and why I smoked for twenty years, was it because that others smoked, that during my entire childhood I saw the fuming chimneys of factories, plants, and neighboring buildings, I saw men smoking (women didn’t smoke, because back then it wasn’t proper for
