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Welcome to “Przekrój”!

In case you’re wondering where you are, and especially since you probably can’t pronounce the name of this website, here’s a little help—“Przekrój” (pronounced “p-SHEH-crooy”) is the oldest society and culture magazine in Poland, now available in English.

“Przekrój” Magazine brings English-speaking readers some of the best journalism from across Central and Eastern Europe, in the fields of wellbeing, art, literature, science, ecology, philosophy, psychology, and more. Take a break from the speed and intensity of the daily news and join us!

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180 results
Reading
Reading
Reading / literature
Love Poem
Love Poem
Reading / literature

The author writes on love and katyush in 2006 in Gdańsk.

Jacek Szafranowicz

Reading / literature
April in Brwinów
April in Brwinów
Reading / literature

As a child, I felt wounded by early spring. The season had an obvious delicacy and allure, but in a way that intensified instead of diminished its agony—the author speaks of spring.

Zbigniew Mikołejko

Reading / literature
Obligations
Obligations
Reading / literature

The poem is pretty self-evident. But beneath what’s universal in it, there’s something more prosaic and individual.

Jacek Dehnel

Reading / literature
Grandma suddenly remembers
Grandma suddenly remembers
Reading / literature

"In a flash of illumination, she pulls from a deep well a true vividness, the fluidity of the world," poet Aglaja Janczak writes about her grandmother

Aglaja Janczak

Reading / culture
Postcards from the Woodstock of the Mind
Postcards from the Woodstock of the Mind
Reading / culture

Margaret Atwood says to save stories like pieces of bent wire; popstar Dua Lipa recommends a shelf of novels. This is the Hay Festival, full of creativity and hope.

Natalia Domagała

Reading / literature
And you don’t know what will sprout
And you don’t know what will sprout
Reading / literature

The author wrote this poem "in a smoky room on one of those evenings when you look in vain for the light and hold on to the one bright spot in whichever corner with the hope that it will get bigger."

Maria Czekańska

Reading / literature
Sorrowbalm
Sorrowbalm
Reading / literature

In London's Kew Gardens, I saw flowers from South Africa, from a region often ravaged by fires—poet Krystyna Dąbrowska comments on her poem, Sorrowbalm

Krystyna Dąbrowska

Magazine / culture
Morality With Its Claws Out
Morality With Its Claws Out
Magazine / culture

We can learn from cats, especially that famous one in boots!

Kamila Dzika-Jurek

Magazine / culture
Brilliant Errors in the System
Brilliant Errors in the System
Magazine / culture

Controlled mistakes were one of the many elements that allowed the Oulipians to experience creative freedom.

Maria Karpińska

Magazine / culture
Italo Calvino, “Mr. Palomar”
Italo Calvino, “Mr. Palomar”
Magazine / culture

“In fact, he spends whole weeks, months in silence.” An excerpt from Italo Calvino’s “Mr. Palomar,” illustrated by Joanna Grochocka.

Joanna Grochocka

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