Periods in unexpected places, paragraphs full of dashes, and mysterious abbreviations abound in Polish writing. Here are a few tips to make sense of the Polish language's unique style and punctuation ...

Mixing historical detail with an intricately developed fictional narrative, the book was immediately hailed as an important work of contemporary Polish writing. Tokarczuk’s now-global audience ...

While the first theme is, understandably, specific to Polish writing, the second theme is much less so. Wyspiański in his play criticises the bourgeoisie and their fashionable fraternising with ‘the ...