Literature
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Olga Tokarczuk’s Books in a Nutshell
Reading / culture
A brief summary for those of you who haven’t read the Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 winner’s books until the very end.
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Franco’s Black Pearls
Reading / literature
A century or so ago, Vilnius was a very different place to today. Kristina Sabaliauskaitė takes us on a trip past the streets and characters of the city once known as Wilno, in this excerpt from her collection of stories about modern Lithuania’s capital.
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Heliography
Media / Photo
In Heliography, Nicolas Grospierre's new body of works, the photographer abandons oneof his favourite topics, architecture, to deliver works that could be seen as the antithesis ofCartier Bressons's concept of "decisive moment".
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Why After All This One and Not the Rest?
Why After All This One and Not the Rest?
Wisława Szymborska’s Extraordinary Postcards
Reading / culture
Wisława Szymborska is mostly known across the world for her poetry. Yet the Nobel Prize winner had another talent up her sleeve - since the 1970s, she’d been making witty collages pasted to postcards.
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You’re Never Smarter Than Your Audience
Culture
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A Beach at the End of the World
A Beach at the End of the World
The Unabashed Emotion of “Sun & Sea (Marina)”
Reading / culture
This year’s Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner came from the Lithuanian pavilion. The piece in question – an opera-performance on an artificial beach – encapsulates all the empathy and emotion that each of us might feel towards a world on its way to disaster.
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Fiedorczuk
Fiedorczuk
In Search of Silence (Part I)
Reading / feuilleton
To our detriment, silence is in short supply. In fact, noise can be harmful to both us humans and the environment we live in.
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Colours of Lost Time
Media / Photo
Bownik’s vision takes the intense, saturated hues of a bird’s plumage and has them disperse, turning them into a buzzing phantom of spectroscopic dimensions. These extinct creatures come back to life in the form of a mysterious spectrum that casts shade.
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Greta Thunberg: Let’s Use Nature to Fight Climate Change
Media / Video
All around us are magic machines that suck carbon out of the air, cost very little and build themselves. Trees – in all their gorgeous variety and spectacular beauty – can make a massive difference to the world, if we accept one condition: we have to leave fossil fuels in the ground, where they belong.
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October in History
October in History
Diary of an Eternal Pessimist
Reading / society
Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of October.
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A Short Essay About Mystery
A Short Essay About Mystery
The Enduring Attraction of “Dekalog”
Reading / culture
In 1989, a then obscure Polish director called Krzysztof Kieślowski made a 10-part series for Polish television. Today, “Dekalog” is still ranked as one of the best non-English television productions by IMDB. Why might this be?
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War, Never Again?
War, Never Again?
A Century of Anti-Fascist Art
Reading / culture
What can art do about fascism? Where does the border between artistic creation and propaganda lie? And can the latest exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw answer either of these questions?
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We Are All Parasites
We Are All Parasites
An Interview with Bong Joon-ho
Reading / culture
Bong Joon-ho talks about inequality, violence and the family in his latest film, the Palme d’Or-winning black comedy “Parasite”.
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Baltic Grey Seal, Lithuania, 2016
Reading / literature
A poem by Scottish poet Gordon Meade from his Zoospeak series, which attempts to give voice to animals living in captivity.
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Truth and Fictions
Truth and Fictions
An Interview with Agnieszka Holland
Reading / culture
Agnieszka Holland talks about her new film “Mr. Jones”, and how we find ourselves at a timely moment for a story about a journalist uncovering brutal facts amid perfidious misdirection.
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Wojciech
Mann
Mann
Meditations of a Lazybones
Reading / feuilleton
A lazybones presents his political manifesto for... laziness.
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Healthy Living
Four Short Meditations for the Autumn Weather
Magazine / society
A psychologist outlines four meditation exercises for the autumn months.
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A Cold
A Cold
On Lem, Philip K. Dick and the FBI
Reading / literature
In an extract from his book “Out of this World: The Life of Stanisław Lem”, Wojciech Orliński describes a sensational yet often misunderstood encounter between Stanisław Lem and Philip K. Dick, in which the latter denounced the former as a thief.
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Poematic
Voices
Reading / literature
“And there she stands again, petite, at the blackboard.” A poem by a contemporary Polish poet.
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The Internets
Media / Photo
The internet, despite being widely available, as a virtual entity remains elusive. Its visualisation (what we know as the internet) is a collection of blue images, implicating digital modernity. Underneath those notions, however, hide addresses of companies that provide services and management of the internet.
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Poematic
glove
Reading / literature
“a woman in a red jacket / picked up a glove from the snow…” A poem by a contemporary Polish writer.
