The country whose culture proved particularly influential for Wajda was Japan, though his connection to it was initially ...

"Dość mamy brudnych, wstrętnych utworów zabagniających nam literaturę" – grzmiała jedna z czytelniczek "Bluszczu", w którym opublikowano "Przymierze z dzieckiem". Naturalistyczne opowiadanie o ...

Opowieść o czytankach, które kształtowały umysły młodych Polaków przez stulecia. Chorwacka pisarka Dubravka Ugrešić jeden z esejów w książce "Kultura kłamstwa" poświęciła swojemu elementarzowi z ...

Walc, tango, oberek i dużo innych tańców, które mogłyby zabrzmieć na sylwestrowym balu. Do dziwnego tańca zaprasza Filip Lech ...

Monika Kucia speaks with Ewa Grochowska about the human bonds that influence cuisine and about what a wanderer carries in his ...

Everyone knows that Zamość is one of the world’s few embodiments of the popular Renaissance concept of an ideal city. But it wasn’t only in the Renaissance that the perfect model of human settlement ...

When summer comes to its inevitable end, Poles start foraging for fungi. But what exactly is it that has Poles so mushroom mad? And how can one get started? Here's Culture.pl's guide to mushroom ...

In honour of the start of the European Championships this summer, here’s a look back at some Polish athletes who not only achieved great success, but broke records in their sports. From skiing in the ...

‘For whosoever shalt stealeth this book shall findeth himself hung from a tree!’ So reads an admonition written on Polish bookplates. Did the spell really work? Let us trace the road of this literary ...

‘Let’s not live from guest to guest’, Wielopolska warned. Stryjeńska emphasized that the most important thing is to ‘control your anger when you get into a rage’. Ipohorska in turn recalled the times ...

The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, ...

Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...