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Editorial team at Przekrój EN. Have been known to write about sex, health, Polish culture for the likes of
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Warsaw, PolandJoined July 2017
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I'm happy to announce that Przekrój Magazine now have a Twitter presence for our English edition. For long-form, slow-paced journalism about culture and society, written with a lightness of touch (and accompanied by loads of great illustrations), follow
@PrzekrojM
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Richard Greenhill
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Przekrój Magazine is currently commissioning writers for a new series about lesser-known / underrepresented food and culture. We are looking for pieces that connect a culinary dish with a cultural tradition. We pay a fixed fee of €200. DM me for more details.
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I was in my local park when I was 14, some friends told me the Cheeky Girls were there. I saw twins in matching outfits with parents. I asked if they were the Cheeky Girls, they said yes, we go for Sunday stroll with family. Then one of them gave me an autographed postcard & left
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Mave
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Now, more than ever, we should share our most mundane celebrity encounters. For example, in 2002 I saw Diane Keaton in the Gap
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Richard Greenhill
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Whole thing is a joke, what is the point in introducing mandatory quarantine now... Even more frustrating is that I'm certain UK government and usual media will turn this into a 'we followed the science as best we could, blah blah'. This should have happened in March, no excuses.
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Jakub Krupa
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As per today's papers, all passengers coming to the UK from June 1st will be asked to quarantine themselves for 14 days. Just a reminder that Slovakia introduced this on 13th March, almost two months ago. Poland - on 15th March. Just saying.
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This article from
@HannaLiubakova
is a joy to read - a fascinating examination of the much-touted cleanliness of Minsk, whether this rings true throughout the whole city, and what this tells us about the Belarusian capital's residents.
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Hanna Liubakova takes you on a virtual trip to the Belarusian capital where the voluntary lockdown began decades ago. przekroj.pl/en/society/min
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Ben Stanley
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Another blocking of a van driving around Warsaw blaring out homophobic propaganda. This time, the driver was fined for breaking laws on the use of amplification in a public place. Which raises the question: why aren't the police stopping the van?
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Kolejna blokada furgonetki z homofobicznymi banerami. Jej kierowca dostał mandat
Na placu Trzech Krzyży doszło do zablokowania furgonetki z homofobicznymi banerami. To kolejna taka akcja w ciągu kilku ostatnich dni. Policjanci kierują wniosek do sądu o ukaranie kierowcy. Według...
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@rich_greenhill
I need to commission someone to write a feature on the films of Studio Ghibli (most likely focused on those of Hayao Miyazaki). Experience of writing on film / Ghibli is essential. It's for
@PrzekrojM
and we pay writers. For more details, hit up my DMs.
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@PrzekrojM
In the first instalment of an interactive #reportage series about what it means to be a witch in 21st-century Europe, we take you to Hajnówka in Poland, where so-called ‘whisperers’ arouse both popularity and suspicion among the local community.
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I Just Pray - Przekrój Magazine
What does it mean to be a witch in 21st-century Europe? Our new cross-border reportage tries to answer this question by looking for the granddaughters of the witches that Europe was never able to...
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On our 75th birthday, we went on the trail of Janina Ipohorska, one of the post-war pioneers of “Przekroj”. Watch a special animation (illustrated by Karyna Piwowarska and animated by Jakub Wroński) to find out more about her.
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Woman with a Pebble in Her Heart - Przekrój Magazine
We invite you to watch an animation about Janina Ipohorska, one of the post-war pioneers of “Przekrój”, who for years was the deputy of editor-in-chief Marian Eile. The video was created for the...
Richard Greenhill
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I am happy that I chose to take a holiday in Taiwan this month, which - ironically - has ended up being safer than Poland. Although it looks increasingly likely that I won't actually be able to fly back to Poland any time soon...
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It may be Valentine's Day, but I'm sure you'd much rather read about the time Saddam cooked shitty koftas for his chef on a boat cruise down the Tigris. Exclusive extract below from Witold Szabłowski's upcoming "How to Feed A Dictator".
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1/2 “I didn’t like it when he got down to cooking. But that time I thought to myself, ‘It’s almost impossible to ruin koftas.’” przekroj.pl/en/literature/
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Richard Greenhill
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To get things started, why not read
@m_demski
's interview with freshly-crowned Best Picture winner Bong Joon-ho, the Korean director of Parasite, Snowpiercer, Memories of Murder, and many more.
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Bong Joon-ho – the Korean director of Oscar frontrunner @ParasiteMovie – talks about social inequality, the importance of family in his films, and the timing of violence on the silver screen. #Oscars2020 przekroj.pl/en/culture/we-
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Richard Greenhill
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An excellent summary of the decade in Eastern European film from the excellent
@carmen_gray
. It's not all doom and gloom out East!
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Carmen Gray
@carmen_gray
I'm always telling anyone who will listen that for the best of Europe, you have to head east. Here, for Poland's "Przekroj", I picked 10 of the most significant films of the last 10 years, and wrote about why they matter. Here's to a new decade! 🥂 bit.ly/2u7mdF3
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Gary Younge
@garyyounge
So the 117 Tory MP's who had no confidence in Theresa May to lead her party last month will express confidence in her to lead the country today now that 432 MP's, including most of them, have emphatically rejected her deal. Sounds like a plan.
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Richard Greenhill
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Anyway, I'm really happy to read about Piotr Szczesny in the Holland interview, nice one Christian Davies. Western media completely overlooked that story (about a man self-immolating in protest against Polish government), but Davies makes a poignant dedication here.
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Richard Greenhill
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On the other hand, Holland's film Spoor from last year did say something about modern Polish politics. Not its biggest fan, but it's a nice allusive critique (perhaps because Olga Tokarczuk, a Pole, co-wrote it with Holland?). 1983 is just a strange fantasy piece.
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Richard Greenhill
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I also don't buy Holland's suggestion that 1983 says something about current Polish politics, about PiS. It would have been easy to create a show about right-wing authoritarianism, this one ain't it. It's very clearly about continued communism (which is absent from modern Poland)
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