Eurozine on the Estonian Novel
Eurozine’s marvelous Literary Perspectives series visits Estonia: While the Great Estonian Novel has yet to be written, writes poet and critic Märt Väljataga, the range of fiction in Estonian is sufficiently wide to serve as an indicator of the hopes and fears, anxieties and obsessions, of post-communist Estonia. ...
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Tallinn in 2011
Cafe Babel has an article about Tallinn’s plans as European Cultural Capital in 2011. The project is entitled “Tallinn: Everlasting Fairytale,” and the impressive program is available online as a pdf. This is a bit concerning though: The EU is a bit stingy – they are donating a mere 1.5 ...
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The Beauty of History
As a teenager, I watched on TV the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. The year was 1968. The Soviet Union put an end to an attempt by a purportedly sovereign state to introduce a milder brand of Communism. Conscripts from the Baltic republics were also forced to take part in this blatant act of Soviet ...
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