It costs billions, makes millions unhappy, and kills thousands. The United States and some European countries have recognized it as an epidemic. Poland has yet to join them.
By Przemysław Wilczyński
Student A: "It comes up when I'm at university and don't know people (...); when I feel unnoticed, ignored (...); when I'm let down by people I trusted, when I remember the people I've lost."
Millions of NSDAP documents have been posted online this year. Germans are increasingly looking into their ancestors’ wartime experiences. Will digital archives break through the wall of family amnesia? By Paweł Zarychta A few months ago, the acclaimed German writer Judith Hermann published her autobiographical novel entitled Ich möchte zurückgehen
Why has a behaviour that is widespread in the natural world and has recurred many times throughout human history become subject to one of the strongest human taboos? By Kasper Kalinowski On 9 March 1945, at 9 am, the commander of a Japanese battalion, Major Matoba – who was later taken
Ian Rankin, author of the John Rebus series, has never really experienced a dip in form, even though he has sold tens of millions of books. After a break of several years, he returns with A Heart Full of Headstones. By Piotr Kofta The contemporary crime novel is governed by
A vice-president with African-American or Asian roots, such as Kamala Harris, was unthinkable even to people whose job it is to make up stories in Hollywood. By Piotr Tarczyński No American politician aspires to the role of vice-president; no one enters politics in the hope of one
