From the First Lullaby to an Algorithmic Mozart: Why Do We Listen to Music?
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Who Taught the Poles to Cook? Queen Bona, Victim of a Smear Campaign
We will never find out who introduced us to włoszczyzna. But we can answer a different question: why did Bona, of all people, become the face of changing manners and eating habits? By Paweł Bravo "Splitting a single pea four ways is not for me. The whole of nouvelle
The Discreet Charm of the Apocalypse: Where Does Climate Activists' Radicalism Come From?
We are seeing a mechanism in which the label of eco-terrorism is being applied to acts of civil disobedience. This is language characteristic of moral panic. By Dominika Soszyńska and Przemysław Pluciński Dominika Soszyńska: One of the most visible spaces of young people's engagement today is climate
Ryszard Koziołek on Tokarczuk's New Novel: Poland as a Bomb Hole
At first I was ashamed to find myself enjoying a novel with so much death and trauma in it. Soon, I was ashamed of my shame. What have we done to ourselves, that we no longer know how to play with literature? By Ryszard Koziołek Imagine three outstanding books lying
Jane Campbell: To Be Yourself, You Sometimes Have to Break a Few Hearts
Society tries to suppress the individuality of old women. I'm 84. Maybe I haven't had the happiest day of my life yet? By Justyna Dąbrowska and Jane Campbell Justyna Dąbrowska: How old are you? Jane Campbell: Eighty-four. I'll be eighty-five in January.