In these striking still lifes, Karol Palczak transforms ordinary fruit and objects into unsettling images of decay, stripping ...

Nobel Prize-winning author and poet Czesław Miłosz's writing continues to offer admirers all over the world a glimpse into his delightful and profound brilliance. Not that I want to be a god or a hero ...

Although Adam Mickiewicz himself never made it to the Caucasus, his poetic words and message of freedom did. What role in the ...

What Adam Kilian wanted most was ‘to elucidate texts’: to illuminate the imagination – his own first, and then that of the ...

Warsaw, 5th January 1938. The Institute for Art Propaganda (IPS) in Warsaw has just opened an exhibition of work by the ...

How a piece of Polish messianism went on to inspire the central work of modern Ukrainian national consciousness. And how the ...

What does Mickiewicz have in common with China? Considering the geographical distance and the historical and cultural ...

The subversive strategies of resistance and models of effective action which Mickiewicz forged in literature exerted an ...

This wittily and elegantly written book subverts our clichéed ideas, our ossified stereotypes and our convenient habits ...

War, which, until recently, seemed to be an important, but closed chapter in our part of Europe, is returning today as a ...

In Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets, we find no trace of Russia. We do find a multicultural Tatar Crimea with all its dated glory and memory of the recent past. Is this why this work could, in time, ...

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...