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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