Conversations
Latest articles in the Conversations category
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The Estonian public knows Rein Raud foremost as an intellectual and a scholar of the humanities who doesn’t balk at speaking up in discussio...
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I’ve known Doris Kareva for many years. I know her to be a good person, editor, and poet, who works persistently to help and publish other p...
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Mehis Heinsaar, who is one of the most esteemed Estonian prose writers of the last decade, is likewise one of the chosen few to receive a st...
Portraits
Latest articles in the Portraits category
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A woman furtively squeezes the rounded surfaces of hard, unripe pears in her purse: she must somehow change the mind of a man who is threate...
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The Estonian writer and politician Maimu Berg (71) mesmerizes readers with her audacity in directly addressing some topics that are even see...
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Siuru, a literary group of the utmost importance in Estonia’s cultural context, was founded in May 1917. It was the second-to-last year of W...
Reflections
Latest articles in the Reflections category
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Published in 1935, I Loved a German (Ma armastasin sakslast) was the seventh novel written by the Estonian literary classic A. H. Tammsaare ...
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In the late 1990s, Sergei Issakov (1931–2013), who was born in the border town of Narva and taught Slavic studies in Tartu his entire career...
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Estonia is a small country where people generally can’t make a living purely on art and literature: the market simply isn’t large enough. ...
Book reviews
Latest articles in the book reviews category
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Eva Koff, Sinine mägi (Blue Mountain)
Tallinn, Varrak, 2017. 440 pp
ISBN 9789985342213
Eva Koff’s Blue Mountain, which shared 2nd and 3...
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Vahur Afanasjev, Serafima ja Bogdan (Serafima and Bogdan)
Vemsa, 2017. 560 pp
ISBN 9789949880355
The plot of Vahur Afanasjev’s opus ma...
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Tõnu Õnnepalu, Valede kataloog / inglise aed (Catalogue of Lies / English Garden)
Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2017. 392 pp
ISBN 97899...