Evoking Intimacy: A Conversation with Sveta Grigorjeva
I think intimacy is something akin to Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action: something that does not exist until two or more phenomena meet and become something new. As for how the world practises intimacy – well, I’m afraid that genuine intimacy, that close-close way of being with others, is becoming increasingly rare. I think, for…
The Impotence of War by Andrei Hvostov
In truth, the situation is more dire still – prose writers are unable to write anything at all during wartime, save for newspaper articles, essays or a few inconsequential fragments, which today only interest specialists like literary historians or academics.
Urban Echoes by Maximilian Murmann
Mati Unt, who was in his early thirties when he wrote the novel and lived in Mustamäe himself, knew that a cold, constructed living space is not conducive to life. This perspective is reinforced with quotes from French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, whose Poetics of Space is just one of many references that Unt, who introduced…
I Did Not Want It by Sebastian Guggolz
Within Ristikivi’s work, The Night of Souls marks a caesura, for nothing he had written before resembles this book and neither does anything that came after.
The Cosmic Landscape of Estonian Literature
HASSO KRULL (b. 1964) is an Estonian poet, essayist, and translator whose work bridges mythology, philosophy, and contemporary poetry. He has translated authors ranging from Jean Cocteau to Charles Bukowski. In 2024 he defended his doctoral thesis Cosmic Trickster of Estonian Mythology.
Europe, Our Soft Machine. Editorial
The unchecked sowing of fear of war is not always the wisest creative or existential strategy, psychologically speaking. Yet we cannot forget that Ukrainians’ struggle today is also a struggle for our freedom as Estonians – as Europeans.
