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Ilya Kalinin
Letter from New York: "Fuck off Wall Street"
On a visit to New York City, the author searches for traces of the global economic crisis – in vain. The crisis seems to be confined to Wall Street and the graffiti.
Commentary
Various news items and media quotes (the current state of the printed press; financing of the humanities; "shopaholism" as a mental disorder; the loss of luggage by airlines) commented on by Russian journalist Kiril Kobrin, Latvian social anthropologist Roberts Kilis, philosopher Artis Svece, and poet Agnese Krivade.
Interview
Ieva Lesinska
Eroticism of time and place
A conversation with Romanian-American poet, novelist, and national public radio commentator Andrei Codrescu. The topics include "the disappearance of the outside" (also a Codrescu book title) in the contemporary world; the exciting era in American poetry in the 1960s when Codrescu arrived in the US, as opposed to the "professional", "creative writing programme" of poetry now; the curious dearth of well told stories in post-Communist Europe; the poetry of baseball; the unique atmosphere of New Orleans – Codrescu's adopted city; his visit to Cuba, and much more.
Genius and place
Valdis Abols
The nostalgia of the last leopard
The author discusses his long road toward appreciating The Leopard, the unique novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa whose aristocratic wife came from Latvia. Only as he gets older himself is he beginning to understand di Lampedusa's nostalgia for the sensuality of things past.
Art
Kaspars Vanags
To feed on art
The prosperity of seventeenth century Holland and the love of adventure and experiment of its denizens as reflected in the still-lives of the Dutch Golden Age.
Interview
Reinis Tukiss
Works like a music conductor
Interview with professor Nikolai Nikolaev, acupuncture specialist and president of the International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques. About the Western and Oriental concepts of health and illness.
Territory
Pauls Bankovskis
Our own country
Pauls Bankovskis visits the annual country music festival in Bauska, a town in central Latvia, and is surprised to find that the genre and its associated lifestyle and fashions are very popular among the fifty- and sixty-somethings.
Published 2009-10-02
Original in Latvian
Contributed by Rigas Laiks
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