In September 2024, the New York Times culinary website NYT Cooking published a recipe for Lithuanian cold soup, which was described in a short Facebook post as ‘probably the most famous of Polish cold ...

Jesters were much more than just people who made a laughing-stock of themselves. Feigned stupidity became their life’s ...

Where did Poland begin? From the island stronghold of Ostrów Lednicki to the royal hill of Wawel, the traces of the first Piast rulers still shape the country’s landscape. This journey through ten ...

How did soaked cardboard boxes transform into an image of turn-of-the-century Montréal? What’s the story behind the disproportionately large heads of the characters? How did the pandemic influence the ...

Whittled down from over 160 pianistsin the final stages, the official jury has chosen the one and only winner of the 17th Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Seong-Jin Cho from Korea has beaten ...

Few filmmakers shaped modern Polish cinema as profoundly as Andrzej Wajda. A towering figure of the Polish Film School, Wajda spent decades exploring Poland’s history, identity, and moral dilemmas ...

From royal palaces to tourist traps, here’s a true historical snapshot of Saxony’s capital – told by a Polish exile who admires the parks, complains about the cooking, and never quite loses his sense ...

Centuries ago, foreign travelers marveled at Poland's hearty feasts, legendary hospitality, and spirited love for beer and ...

This cultural journey traces the life of Andrzej Wajda from his childhood in Suwałki and Radom to the art schools of Kraków ...

Jesse Eisenberg's 'A Real Pain' follows two American cousins on a Holocaust-themed tour in Poland, confronting inherited trauma, cultural detachment, and the discomfort of memorial tourism. Mixing ...

Philosopher Andrzej Marzec calls for a radical rethinking of ecology—one that abandons human dominance and embraces emotional, interspecies relationships. By challenging the binaries of nature/culture ...

The first female rector in the hundred-year (!) history of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań speaks about the glass ceiling, changes in academic culture, and why supporting women in science remains ...