W.G. Sebald writes as if the past were a landscape one could enter by taking the wrong train. His narrators wander through railway stations, country lanes,…
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David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Return begins like a revival and gradually reveals itself as something far stranger: a critique of the idea that…
For Polish people scattered after 1945, a song could preserve what geography had broken apart. Displaced persons, soldiers, political exiles and later economic…
Few filmmakers have made the ordinary world feel as unstable, or as inhabited, as Jan Švankmajer. Across more than fifty years of work, the Czech animator has…
In March 2017, Nintendo released a Zelda game that did more than continue a beloved franchise. Breath of the Wild dismantled a decade of open-world conventions…
The four books of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan cycle are narrated by Elena Greco, a writer trying to make sense of her girlhood friend Lila Cerullo. From the…
Polish speculative fiction has carried a peculiar weight since the fall of the People's Republic, and that weight now feeds straight into its most unsettling…
Polish progressive rock rarely travels as easily as its British or American counterpart. Language, limited distribution and the old Iron Curtain all shaped how…
Samuel Beckett's Endgame has haunted stages and reading rooms for nearly seven decades, its single act compressing the weight of human history into a bare…
Polish film posters of the 1960s remain striking because they rarely behave like ordinary advertisements. Instead of presenting a star’s face, a dramatic…