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Could Have
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A poem by a Polish Nobel Prize winner, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
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Uncle Sam
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Dougal has just arrived in Lagos to meet Chief Ernest, a Nigerian man who emailed the British schoolteacher about his late uncle’s inheritance. It seems like a 419, but who’s scamming who?
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A Trip To Świder
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“Are you going to Świder? / Because I’m going to Świder.” A poem by a “Przekrój” favourite.
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A Playful Nostalgia for a Lost World
A Playful Nostalgia for a Lost World
An Introduction to “A Trip to Świder”
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The translators of “A Trip to Świder” introduce Gałczyński’s poem, and describe the relevance of its setting – a one-time suburban summer resort with a distinct architectural style.
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The Hunt
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Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
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Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
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A corpse has been discovered at a retirement home run by nuns, but Zofia is not convinced that the death was entirely natural... Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates an excerpt from the first novel in a period crime series featuring Zofia Turbotyńska.
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The Art of Translation with Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Art of Translation with Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Valdemar Questionnaire
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Antonia Lloyd-Jones speaks with Valdemar about grisly murders, the elegance of Polish, and the lanky ghost of Józef Czapski.
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The Tale of the Plastic Bag
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In the distant future, Plastic Bag meets Diamond on Henderson Island, a plastic-strewn landmass in the Pacific Ocean. A short story set in the Plasticozoic Era.
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The Hunt
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The Hunt
Stanisław Lem’s Unknown Story
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Racing across mountains and remote backwoods, a solitary figure is on the run from a team of heavily armed hunters. Will he manage to get away? Antonia Lloyd-Jones's translation of a previously unknown story by the great master of science fiction.
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A Typescript Found in a Folder
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A previously unknown short story by science fiction author Stanisław Lem was recently discovered in his archives. A literary scholar discusses how “The Hunt” remained hidden for so long, and what the story might mean.
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How Did We Discover Stanisław Lem’s Unpublished Short Story?
How Did We Discover Stanisław Lem’s Unpublished Short Story?
The Origins of “The Hunt”
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How did we find a previously unpublished short story of Stanisław Lem, one of the most celebrated Polish writers of all time?
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Immigrant Sea
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“The way / he searches out her face, he searches out himself”. A poem by the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner.
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Deep Soundings
Deep Soundings
An Introduction to Forrest Gander’s “Immigrant Sea”
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Forrest Gander’s poem “Immigrant Sea” describes a sensual and intellectual encounter, which ebbs and flows across the page, just like its protagonist’s recognition of himself.
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The Door
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About 10 years ago, a door appeared behind the church’s side altar. We don’t know what happened behind that door, but we do know that it was life-changing. A short story set in the Polish countryside.
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short story
Henryk Ochorowicz Steps Across the Threshold
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In 1935, Henryk Ochorowicz found his soulmate in a small Warsaw bookstore. Unfortunately, she was Queen Marysieńka, a Polish monarch who had died over 200 years earlier.
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The Model Worker
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In the near future, work has become fully automated. Humans spend their days doing whatever they like, helped by robots. Nonetheless, for Wili, something is missing… A short story set in Warsaw.
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Poematic
it’s only sunday
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“those are your Sunday rules / that you kill the rooster...” Marcin Orliński presents a piece by a young Polish poet.
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Too Much Love
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A young man’s corpse is found at an eighteenth birthday party. Is it a drug-related death, a suicide, or perhaps even a murder? A short story set in Warsaw.
