Literature
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Our Favourite Architecture From the ‘New East’
Our Favourite Architecture From the ‘New East’
Top 10 of the Decade
Reading / society
As we reach the end of the 2010s, “Przekrój” looks back on our favourites of the last decade. Here, we give a subjective overview of the best architectural designs realized in Central and Eastern Europe.
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A Bittersweet Fairy Tale
Eastern blocks
A Bittersweet Fairy Tale
Life in a Łódż High Rise
Reading / society
In the fourth instalment of our ‘Eastern Blocks’ series, Anna Rembowska, a childhood resident of the Assistant Professors’ Hostel high rise in Łódż, remembers growing up as if in a Kusturica film.
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Take Your Brain for a Walk
Take Your Brain for a Walk
How to Have a Happy Head
Magazine / science
The human brain is a remarkable feat of natural engineering, capable of controlling our actions and emotions; responsible for our wildest creations. All of which also means that we should do our best to take proper care of it.
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The Himalayan Super Express
The Himalayan Super Express
The Story of Nirmal Purja
Magazine / society
In 2019, a Nepalese man set off on ‘Project Possible’ – a plan to ascend all 14 eight-thousander mountains in seven months. In the end, he exceeded all expectations.
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Lumberjacks
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Our Favourite Films from the ‘New East’
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It Should Be OK.
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You Must Change Your Life
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Tradition Invented
Society
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Shall We Meet at Half Past Lust, or a Quarter to Folly?
Shall We Meet at Half Past Lust, or a Quarter to Folly?
The Charm of Raymond Peynet’s ‘Lovers’
Magazine / culture
A Polish artist and graphic designer reflects on his connection with Raymond Peynet’s illustrated ‘lovers’, whose naive simplicity shaped his own vision of love.
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Nothing Fixes Itself
Nothing Fixes Itself
An Interview with Almudena Grandes
Reading / culture
The writer Almudena Grandes talks about the exhumation of Franco, her best-selling novel “The Ages of Lulu”, and why Spain must confront its fascist past.
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Patria in Need
Patria in Need
An Unusual Hotel in the Mountains
Magazine / society
In the 1930s, the singer Jan Kiepura and architect Bohdan Pniewski started to create a hotel in the Krynica spa resort in the south of Poland. The result was a wonderful feat of architecture.
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short story
Four Fine Fellows
Reading / literature
In this short story based on true events that took place in Kielce in 1946, we join a militiaman, a baker, a cobbler and a caretaker in a pub, as they talk about honesty.
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To Be a Dolphin
To Be a Dolphin
In Praise of a Most Intelligent Mammal
Magazine / science
Dolphins are, by all accounts, awe-inspiring creatures. Perhaps they are even more intelligent than us human beings…
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On Rowanberries and Parsnip
Magazine / society
In this edition of “Miracle Diet”, we look at how to cook with the fruit of the rowan tree, the history of the parsnip, and life living on an allotment.
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Like a Cow Chewing Grass
healthy living
Like a Cow Chewing Grass
Breaking Free From Rumination
Reading / society
Negative thoughts tire us out psychologically. Sometimes they return again and again, like a boomerang, trapping our mind in a difficult cycle. What can we do with such thoughts?
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A Cure for a Lack of Reason
A Cure for a Lack of Reason
An Interview with Paul Bloom
Magazine / society
Paul Bloom talks about the importance of human reason, how we might make moral progress, and why we would all benefit from having less empathy.
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Culinary Meditation
healthy living
Culinary Meditation
The Art of Slow Cooking
Magazine / society
On lazy days – when you want to cook without effort and take time to read or day-dream – it’s good to know some methods for kitchen action with no action at all.
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Ideas from the Void
Ideas from the Void
An Interview with Joanna Grochocka
Reading / culture
On the eve of receiving her award from the Society of Illustrators, regular “Przekrój” illustrator Joanna Grochocka talks about the glory days of Polish illustration, what inspires her, and how she finds an original language for her art.
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In the Clouds as in Beehives
In the Clouds as in Beehives
How Snowflakes Are Formed
Magazine / science
When, in the winter months, we see snowflakes fall from the sky, their patterns look so intricately delicate. What exactly is the secret to their hexagonal form?
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6th February 1936
6th February 1936
Anniversary of the Month
Reading / science
On this day in 1936, the Olympic flame burned from up high, announcing the start of the Winter Olympics hosted by… the Third Reich. The games were a propaganda coup for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
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Flying Over a Frozen Lake
sports
Flying Over a Frozen Lake
A Brief History of Ice Yachting
Magazine / society
In the interwar period, Poland was the European capital of ice yachting. People still sail across the ice today.
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Julia
Fiedorczuk
Fiedorczuk
In Search of Silence (Part II)
Reading / feuilleton
Silence is so difficult to find; even when we think we’ve found it, we still have to deal with our own internal psychological noise.
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Our Favourite Films by Female Directors from the ‘New East’
Our Favourite Films by Female Directors from the ‘New East’
Top 10 of the Decade
Reading / culture
As we reach the end of the 2010s, “Przekrój” looks back on our favourites of the last decade. Here, we give a subjective overview of the best films directed by women from Central and Eastern Europe.
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The Race for the Pole
sports
The Race for the Pole
An Antarctic Challenge
Magazine / culture
Few sporting challenges are as physically and psychologically taxing as crossing the Antarctic continent, solo and unaided. Yet that is precisely what Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd set out to do.
