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Woman with a Pebble in Her Heart
Art + Stories
Experiences

Woman with a Pebble in Her Heart

We invite you to watch an animation about Janina Ipohorska, one of the post-war pioneers of “Przekrój”, who for years was the deputy of editor-in-chief Marian Eile. The video was created for the occasion of our 75th birthday. Enjoy!
April in History
World + People
Science

April in History

Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of April.
Adam Węgłowski
“Przekrój” for Beginners
Art + Stories
Art

“Przekrój” for Beginners

“Przekrój” revisits the story of our magazine – from a cramped tenement block in post-war Kraków, to the relaunched and revitalized quarterly in modern-day Warsaw.
Paulina Wilk
The Birth of Childhood
Art + Stories
Experiences

The Birth of Childhood

In Europe, the present generation of children have relatively comfortable lives. But the road to childhood was a rocky one, taking a few thousand years across the continent.
Andrzej Krajewski
Conceiving God
World + People
Dreams and Visions

Conceiving God

Countless deities exist across the various pantheons of human history; alongside those deities are written manifold origin stories. What might these mythologies tell us about how we view childhood?
Tomasz Wiśniewski
Skyborne Whales
World + People
Dreams and Visions

Skyborne Whales

Airships – those long, cylindrical balloons that cruise through the sky – seem like a relic of a bygone era. But, with the climate now high on the agenda, they might be making an unexpected comeback.
Andrzej Krajewski
Seven Lucky Bastards
Art + Stories
Experiences

Seven Lucky Bastards

They say that fortune favours the brave, but sometimes, when the worst possible circumstances strike, you simply need a big slice of luck – as the stories of these seven hapless souls show.
Adam Węgłowski
Audubon’s Birds
Art + Stories
Art

Audubon’s Birds

Today, the 19th-century American artist and ornithologist John James Audubon is considered one of the founding fathers of American ecology. But what makes his work so special?
Agnieszka Drotkiewicz
The World Is Dead, Long Live the World!
World + People
Science

The World Is Dead, Long Live the World!

Approximately 541 million years ago, the Cambrian Period began. With it came an explosion of life, never before seen in the history of the world.
January Weiner
The Sorrows of Young Cornflower
World + People
Dreams and Visions

The Sorrows of Young Cornflower

We present you with an alternative history of the world, in which one of the great literary talents was, in fact, an intensely blue flower.
Adam Węgłowski