Poland

Kraków: Living in a Metaphor

Sabin Iqbal

Like a well-crafted novel, Kraków reveals its secrets slowly, inviting repeated visits, rewarding careful attention. Sabin Iqbal gets into the city’s literary soul

The leanness of the streets in Poznan reminded me of the ‘chiselled’ and lean lines of Wisława Szymborska, the Nobel-winning poet who was born in a remote village 20 kilometres from the city a century ago today

A European Backlash

Minhaz Merchant

What Geert Wilders’ victory says about Islamophobia

Sumy Students to Exit Ukraine Via Lviv, Polish Border

Ullekh NP

Lack of clearance meant stranded students had to travel afar westward, not to the nearby Russian border

Stalag Luft III: Reliving the Great Escape

Rishad Saam Mehta

An impulsive 200-km drive to Stalag Luft III where a prison break by Allied soldiers led to the epic war movie

Plain Truth

Manu Remakant

Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour

The Persistence of Evil

S Prasannarajan

Timothy Snyder’s new book revisits the charred remains of the Jewish tragedy—and the Nazi horror—with a deeper understanding of the present and its fault lines