Looking Back, Fondly and Proudly
It’s a year of anniversaries, all of them commemorated not only by the Republic, but Poles everywhere. Andrew Nagorski has had a front row seat observing Poland’s successes, and shares his personal reflections.
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2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Commentary
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Features
When Rhinos Roamed the Polish Prairie: The Exotic Homeland of Poles in Africa
The world’s largest crocodiles cooled off in nearby water, and hippos and baboons helped themselves to lunch. But it was entertaining. And Irene Tomaszewski was there.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Interviews
In the Shade of the Baobab Tree
From captivity to an enchanting world of freedom – growing up in equatorial Africa.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Features
Once Upon a Time in Africa…
Former students from some of the worlds’ most exclusive schools, they came from all over the world to attend the 25th reunion in Wroclaw. And oh, they sure know how to have fun!
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Features / Films
NEON
The Neon signs of the communist era were works of art, even though the product was never in stock. Eric Bednarski celebrates the art and the artists.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Films / Interviews
Chatting with NEON’s Eric Bednarski
“I’m pro-Neon,” says Eric Bednarski. Take a look and you will be too.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Books
Stuart Dybek: Writing Chicago, Memory, and Dreams
A poetic Babuszka: No word in English turns/a scarf into a grandmother
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Interviews
A Conversation with Stuart Dybek
Growing up in “a port of entry neighborhood,” Stuart Dybek added magic to realism in the divide between “American reality and immigrant soul.”
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Books
Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom
If you always wanted Poland to be just another normal European state, historian Brian Porter-Szűcs says that’s exactly what it is. That is good news, though Michał Kasprzak thinks it may dampen dinner conversations at festive tables.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Films
Tragedy as Art: Miasto 44
Sometimes art can touch what intellectual debates only circle, but that touch can cause searing pain.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Books / Commentary
The Passion of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Compared to Keats, Marcel Proust, and even to “Bob Dylan, William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda and James Dean rolled into one,” Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński was passionate, erotic, heroic, idealistic and incomparably prolific. His life and his art were one, his death made him legend.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Commentary
Canada’s First State Visit to Poland: Promoting Business; Remembering a Shared History
Martin Grzadka is a pragmatic, successful businessman who loves to promote Canada-Poland business. But when he writes about his feelings when the national anthems of his native land and his adopted country were played in the presence of the two countries’ heads of state, well you can almost hear the heartbeats.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Books
Books in Brief: Fall 2014
The Color of Courage: The war took away his childhood, and indelibly etched his memories on his mind. While in The Polish Experience through World War II: A Better Day Has Not Come, master weaver Aleksandra Ziołkowska-Boehm presents a tapestry of wartime experiences.
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