Tag: France

The Most Famous Celts in the World

Humor + Variety

Variety

The Most Famous Celts in the World

The French comic book series starring Asterix and Obelix is well-known across the world. What do these two Gallic villagers represent?

Maciej Świetlik

OK, Let’s Talk About Love

Art + Stories

Art

OK, Let’s Talk About Love

French director Julia Ducournau won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival for her subversive body horror “Titane”. She talks about the importance of choreography, Vincent Lindon, and how she struggles to write about love.

Jakub Armata

The Lady and the Unicorn

Art + Stories

Experiences

The Lady and the Unicorn

The red is saturated and you can see the abundance of plants against it. Some of them are easy to identify, even for a moderately skilled naturalist: lily of the valley or daffodils here, wild strawberries there. Is this what the writer George Sand saw under her feet on a rainy day at Boussac Castle?

Agnieszka Drotkiewicz

Oh, To Be a Jargonaut!

Art + Stories

Experiences, Fiction

Oh, To Be a Jargonaut!

The game of Ouscrapo is at once fun, in the spirit of cooperation, and full of the limitless poetic potential of language.

Maciej Świetlik

Cycling Notebooks

World + People

Dreams and Visions

Cycling Notebooks

In 1939, the 26-year-old Pole Andrzej Bobkowski found himself stranded in France. He started to keep a diary of his everyday experiences as an outsider in an occupied country. We present a selection of entries covering a bicycle trip from southern France to Paris.

Andrzej Bobkowski

In Hope of a Garden

World + People

Nature

In Hope of a Garden

Gilles Clément talks about becoming a landscape designer, respecting and working with nature, and why the entire planet is one big garden.

Zygmunt Borawski