Coming across new vocabulary is one of the great pleasures of translating, and I can’t help but share my delight in coming across the...

Let me explain. These are nouns that are common in the sense that they are both masculine and feminine. (Ahem—some may actually remember...

Well, a major read of Tūla is coming to a close, and I must admit, I feel rather sorry; it’s been so much fun. An aspect of Kunčinas’s...

Jurgis Kunčinas twice uses the appellation, in Lithuanian, gatvių artojai, "plowmen of the streets" in the novel Tūla. The plowing refers...

Once again, the twenty-tome Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language has come to my rescue, this time cheering me with one of its examples...