Post Tagged with: "Warsaw"

The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939-1940
2009 — Winter / Books

The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939-1940

by × on November 23, 2009 at 10:15 am ×

Anyone who’s ever read memoirs written during or immediately after the war knows how very different they are from those written many years later. The writing is vivid, unembellished, adrenalin charged. Memories have not yet faded, been tampered with. There is no editorializing. War is an experience unlike any other. Nobody comes out of it unchanged. When these experiences are recorded by gifted writers – and Rulka Langer certainly was that — they are at once harrowing, inspiring and breathtaking.

1967. A Polish Visit for Witold Rybczynski
2009 — Summer / Features

1967. A Polish Visit for Witold Rybczynski

by × on August 8, 2009 at 12:00 pm ×

It was 1967. I was twenty-four, a freshly-minted architecture graduate spending a year abroad. After driving through France and Spain, and an idyllic several months on the island of Formentera, I was back in Paris, staying with my uncle and aunt, before returning to Canada. But first, I wanted to visit Poland… Architecture critic Witold Rybczynski reminisces.

A Few Questions for… Timothy Snyder, historian
2008 / Interviews

A Few Questions for… Timothy Snyder, historian

by × on November 18, 2008 at 11:00 am ×

A conversation with Timothy Snyder, a rare specialist in the history of modern nationalism and the history of Central and Eastern Europe who gives thoughtful insight on current events in the light of the past.

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