Rimbaud, Rambo, and the Babelfish – about literary festival Babell
The inaugural edition of this literary festival, monumental in so many dimensions, set out to transform Porto, for a few days, into a conceptual Book-City. Events took place primarily in public spaces—on squares, streets, in parks, and even from windows and balconies.
The Grinder – Daniel Orzadowski
I need to think differently, I need to talk to myself differently, when seeing what I see and what I used to see before: the factory, the rented room. Yesterday I stopped before a passing bus. My reflection in the windows would overlay on top of the images of the passengers inside, one by […]
Addiction – how climbers from the Polish People’s Republic conquered the West – Witek Kieńć
>>Translation: Jędrzej Majer<< Eiger in the summer of 1971. The lack of characteristic snow fields on the northern face means a multitude of falling rocks. I Bernadette McDonald, the author of Freedom Climbers, created the mythology of the Polish mountaineering of the “golden age” as an escape from the gray reality of the […]
Am Anfang des Jahres putzen wir alles – the life of cleaning public toilets – Sabina Drąg
“When you’re sad and nothing works out, keep saying amen. Just like Saint Mary. Apparently, that’s what God wants. That’s certain,” she hummed, a bit concerned that these church songs appeared more and more often in the back of her mind. After all, she’s not that sad and some things actually do work out. And […]
Citizens of the third planet are fleeing – Jagoda Cierniak
– Where do I come from? The third planet. A country doesn’t mean anything. My place of origin? The Earth. I am an independent woman. I can travel across rich countries and only they can ensure my safety – the safety against the Third World War, which has just begun. If Syria doesn’t destroy itself […]