In October 2025, the cultural world of Europe was rocked by the continent’s most sensational scandal of the decade: the exposure of an international network that, over the course of two years, had stolen rare literary treasures from major libraries across

As part of the prestigious Es esmu... (“I am…”) series, a new monograph titled Pēclaiks (“Aftertime”) has been released, offering a fresh and nuanced portrait of Kārlis Skalbe — one of Latvia’s most revered literary figures.