In the uncertain aftermath of communism, Poland became a landscape of competing beliefs – where Catholic devotion coexisted ...

Nobel Prize-winning author and poet Czesław Miłosz's writing continues to offer admirers all over the world a glimpse into his delightful and profound brilliance. Not that I want to be a god or a hero ...

Coming with fresh ears to the competition's 2nd Stage, it was exciting to be immediately confronted by Peng Cheng He's ...

Although Adam Mickiewicz himself never made it to the Caucasus, his poetic words and message of freedom did. What role in the ...

Some architects used raw concrete in looking for forms appropriate for post-war reality, others used this material to create ...

In these striking still lifes, Karol Palczak transforms ordinary fruit and objects into unsettling images of decay, stripping ...

What Adam Kilian wanted most was ‘to elucidate texts’: to illuminate the imagination – his own first, and then that of the ...

This wittily and elegantly written book subverts our clichéed ideas, our ossified stereotypes and our convenient habits ...

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

In Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets, we find no trace of Russia. We do find a multicultural Tatar Crimea with all its dated glory and memory of the recent past. Is this why this work could, in time, ...

How a piece of Polish messianism went on to inspire the central work of modern Ukrainian national consciousness. And how the ...

Though cut from different cloth, shaped by contrasting temperaments and backgrounds, they were inextricably bound to one ...