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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.
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Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, has for years been named among the leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature. It's no wonder Polish publishers are showing growing interest in her books. By Monika Ochędowska Written in the mid-1980s, Eros the Bittersweet is both Carson&
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Sławomir Zubrzycki: From the very start, the instrument promised to be a revelation. According to Praetorius, the viola organista could play both town and country music, convey all kinds of feelings, and even imitate a drunk. By Jacek Ślusarczyk and Sławomir Zubrzycki Jacek Ślusarczyk: At a time when The Da
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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
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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
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How should we interpret art that provoked no controversy at the time it was made, but rather fit comfortably within the prevailing conventions? Can it be charged today with the gravest of offenses? By Urszula Pieczek and Maciej Topolski On a warm day, July 4, 1862, thirty-year-old Charles
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Why, in today's world of endless possibilities, would anyone still insist on being a sculptor? By Piotr Kosiewski The exhibition "Sculpture in Search of Place" at Warsaw's Zachęta has taken over the gallery's main exhibition halls, but also the staircase, and even
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Surrealism is a revolt against the coldness of geometry, dead abstraction, the prose of protocol sentences. How does one create one's own world against them? By Eliza Kącka In the catering section of the SuperSam in Warsaw — barbarically demolished twenty years ago — a colossal panel spread above the
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The whole chess world is begging Carlsen, the maverick and perhaps the most inspiring athlete of our time: "King Magnus, come back!" By Rafał Stec He hasn't really left at all. The fascinating paradox is that the Norwegian champion abdicated, yet retained his power — and in