Tag: war

The Great Austrian Myth

Art + Stories

Experiences, Opinions

The Great Austrian Myth

Martin Pollack, the author of numerous books that deconstruct Austria’s dark history, talks about his family’s Nazi past, the German minority in Slovenia, and how history is repeating itself.

Łukasz Saturczak

All Lara’s Wars

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Fiction

All Lara’s Wars

In this extract from Wojciech Jagielski’s upcoming reportage “All Lara’s Wars”, Lara finally reaches the Syrian border, where she is to meet her son Shamil – now one of the mujahideen fighting under the caliphate.

Wojciech Jagielski

Sometimes I Dream About the War

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Experiences, Opinions

Sometimes I Dream About the War

Artem Chekh, a Ukrainian writer and veteran of the war in Donbas, talks about his experiences at the front and how they changed his worldview from the bubble of Kyiv.

Łukasz Saturczak

War, Never Again?

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Opinions

War, Never Again?

What can art do about fascism? Where does the border between artistic creation and propaganda lie? And can the latest exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw answer either of these questions?

Stach Szabłowski

Art + Stories

Fiction

The Armband

One day, six-year-old Helena is gifted a ‘magical’ armband by her friend Tomek. But the armband has some unexpected effects... An excerpt from the book “Kotka Brygidy” [Brygida’s Cat], set in wartime Warsaw.

Joanna Rudniańska