Category: poland
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Lapis lazuli is the stone for the 32nd anniversary. I only looked it up a couple of weeks ago. The stone is blue, and its name in Latin means “stone… more ›
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Babushka’s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps is an eloquent travel memoir that also manages to do the heavy lifting required by great historical writing. Though German-born and… more ›
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After two months as a Peace Corps Trainee I left. I left the Corps. I left Poland. I returned to Texas disenchanted, discouraged, and disappointed. Not necessarily in that order.… more ›
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Maybe she had asked the question before; maybe she’d forgotten my rambling answer. I vaguely remember, perhaps, that we’d had this conversation sitting, no less, at a coffee shop in… more ›
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The Polish word gruz can be translated as rubble, ruins, wreckage. There is no doubt, then, that director Paweł Pawlikowski intends something specific by having one of his protagonists bear that name. This… more ›
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From October 1995 to February 1996 I lived in Poland. I was conducting research on representations of the Holocaust, both historical as well as artistic, for my master’s thesis. Concurrently,… more ›
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I counted (on my fingers and toes and a few other body parts!) last night the number of days I have left in Japan: 23. That does not include the… more ›