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The Editors on Czesław Miłosz, bookbinding, the Louvre, Chopin & more from the world of culture.

'The Cuban Revolution; that is, the long tyranny of Castro and his henchmen and their successors, was made possible, among other things, by their cunning emphasis on pitting justice again freedom'.

Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz were firm friends and Nobel laureates. A writer’s residency has been established in Kraków in their memory

Even with the handover of power to a pro-EU coalition, patriotic-nationalist narratives promoted by the conservative Law and Justice party have taken root

The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.

Action thriller 'Red Dirt' has added Aaron Dominguez, Melissa Fumero, Alejandro Edda, and more to its cast.

Reading Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, about survivors of the World War II death camps, gave the author Daniel Genis humility: “The fact that much worse than I experienced was suffered by innocent people in The Drowned and the Saved made my flicker of self-pity laughable.”

‘But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime.’

Countries like China or Russia, with centuries-long traditions of authoritarian rule, revert to their past practices when confronted with any kind of novelty. The United States, with its tradition of frontier free marketism, reverts to the laissez-faire when confronted with the new. But the result in both cases is the same: the radical constriction of…

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