Chatting with Greg Archer
Justine Jablonska catches Greg Archer in a serious moment, and the conversation ranges from Cyndi Lauper and Ewan McGregor to his indomitable family and the after-effects of war.
Books
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Books / Interviews
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Books
Greg Archer’s Grace Revealed
Fast-paced, sometimes self-indulgent but at times furiously funny, Greg Archer looks at his family’s traumatic experience in the Soviet gulag after years of running away from it.
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 / 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 / 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 / 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.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Krystyna Wituska: Her Life and Literary Afterlife
The memorial Centre in the German city of Halle Saale will unveil a monument to Krystyna Wituska, a young Polish prisoner executed on June 26, 1944, and two German authors will launch their book, Zelle Nr. 18: Eine Geschichte von Mut und Freundschaft (Cell No. 18: a History of bravery and friendship) to mark the 70th anniversary of her death.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books / Films
Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale
Hollywood has been a talent magnet for a long time and one of the first superstars was Poland’s Pola Negri. Justine Jablonska reviews her story, written by Mariusz Kotowski.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Diary: Witold Gombrowicz
A thinker, a genius, a cultural demonologist, Gombrowicz engages manipulates his reader in a game. Łukasz Wodzyński would welcome another round.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books
(A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage
This anthology of new Polish plays was published in English with an ambitious goal: to connect with the universal “everyman.” Will Harrington casts an American eye on the proceedings and says, “Yes, they resonate.”
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books / Poetry
Between Fire and Sleep: Essays On Modern Polish Poetry and Prose
Jaroslaw Anders’ book is at once a “farewell…to a certain way of reading” and “one of the best introductions to twentieth-century Polish literature.” Łukasz Wodzyński reviews.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books / Interviews
A Conversation with Eva Stachniak
Whether Empress Catherine was “Great” or not is debatable, but she was definitely pragmatic, as are all imperial rulers. Justine Jablonska talks to Eva Stachniak about her latest book and how she chooses her subjects.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 1 — Winter-Spring / Books
Beautiful Twentysomethings
Described by Roman Polanski as a troublemaker of immense charm, author Marek Hłasko looked like James Dean… but he was not a rebel without a cause.
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