Blogs in December 2022

The Bastard Factory 19th December 2022

Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv....

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The Book of Riga (Reading the City) 2nd May 2018

Ten short stories written by Latvian authors and set in the country’s capital city…. A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd,...

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The Dogs of Riga 1st January 1970

Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead...

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