We often hear that in childhood there were high snowdrifts in the winter, spring began on a schedule, in the summer there were no tornadoes or squalls, in the fall everything became golden because of correctly yellowed leaves. And now…
For the first time, I conducted this experiment at a conference of literary critics in Wroclaw, which gathered more than three hundred participants from all over the world. Imagine an academic environment, where all are either doctors of sciences or…
My friend doesn’t like children. He simply doesn’t like them. And he is honest about this. He doesn’t offend them, he simply avoids any contact with other people’s children, but at home he, bearded and giant man is melted as…
I myself invented the word “skovoroduvaty” – to roam around accidental (non-touristy) cities, villages and fields. If somebody needs a hipster term, you can say – to slow travel. Julian Barnes tells about his walking holidays – but it’s not…
I together with like-minded friends planned Europe Island Festival first as translator’s platform for generating and connecting contexts and half-tones which often get lost in a globalized world and later already as a festival. And we constantly came upon awareness:…
Do you remember the children’s movie Visitor from the Future and its main character Alisa? That girl with the big blue eyes. She is a replica of my friend I. To be more concise, I. was the replica of that…
The so-called negative selection continues its domination here. The vast majority of literary events that are held here at the local level are clearly provincial in their nature. More or less talented individuals remain outside the local literary process or…
Do you think stylish clothes start from style, colours and interesting combinations? From matching the event and the relevant fashion trends? It’s also important, but the first thing the style begins with is – you will not believe it –…
Let me remind you that the Colonel General of Justice of Ukraine stirred up the whole country with the news on Sunday: he became aware of Romania’s perfidious plan to encroach on his native Bukovyna. Mr. Matios assured that he…
He seemed to be one of the “rich kids”, but he had no money to buy food or clothes as everybody then. His mother was from a rich family but far before the Stalin repressions, she married a poor man…