Sarmatian Review back issues from September 2008:
What the New York Times does not say.(Our Take)(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Some weeks ago your editor was browsing through the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, and New York Times in search of articles of relevance and interest to Central Europe-oriented readers. She found none; this process left an impression that hardly any of the books reviewed ...
Kresy portal.(NOTES)(www.kresy.pl)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Portal <www.kresy.plb deals with the past and present of Poles ...
Correction.
Sep 01, 2008 ... In Michael Mikog's review of Jerzy Axer's book on Sienkiewicz (SR, XXVIII:2), ...
Pan Tadeusz [1834]: Book Two: The Castle.(Excerpt)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Adam Mickiewicz Pan Tadeusz [1834] BOOK TWO THE CASTLE Argument: Hunting with greyhounds. A visitor at the castle. The last of the Horeszko retainers tells the tale of his late master. A glance at ...
Wislawa Szymborska's "The Silence of Plants".(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Imponderable. Impenetrable. Not admitting of interpretation. The poem "The Silence of Plants" has the determination of a text that must be spoken rather than read. It conforms to the norms of literacy to the extent that it is written--though translated, and once removed from its language ...
Susanna.(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Wislawa Szymborska (1923- ) <Pre> Susanna ("Hania") Look, this is Susanna, a servant so good,And these saucepans are haloes, or so it appears.This dragon in the picture should be understoodAs vanity incarnate in this vale of tears. And this is her ...
An interim report on the Polish economy.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... On 30 January 2008 the Financial Times reported that there were five main "economic drivers" at work in the Polish economy in 2007-2008: strong investment, including that from abroad; a major increase in EU aid that came with accession but has yet to start flowing in any real terms; the ...
Biuletyn Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej.(Periodical review)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... BOOKS Biuletyn Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej, no. 12 (83), December 2007, 116 pages and a DVD; nos. 1-2 (84-85), January-February 2008, 200 pages, and a DVD on "Fighting Solidarity" in the 1980s. Edited by Jan Zaryn, Jan Ruman, et al. Published by the Institute of National Memory, ...
Przedziwna Matka Stworzyciela Swego. Antologia dawnej polskiej poezji maryjnej.(Mysterious Mother of Your Creator: An Anthology of Old Polish Marian Poetry)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Przedziwna Matka Stworzyciela Swego. Antologia dawnej polskiej poezji maryjnej (Mysterious Mother of Your Creator: An Anthology of Old Polish Marian Poetry), edited by Roman Mazurkiewicz. Warsaw: Marian Fathers Press, 2008. 584 pages. Notes on authors, notes on anonymous poems, index of ...
A History of Poland.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... A History of Poland By Anita J. Prazmowska. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii + 242 pages. Maps, index. ISBN 0-333-97253-8 (hardcover), ISBN 0-333-97254-6 (paper). Anita Prazmowska's History of Poland is the most recent English-language synthesis of Polish history ....
Krolestwo potrzebuje kata.(The Kingdom Needs an Executioner and Lidia from Cameroon)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Krolestwo potrzebuje kata (The Kingdom Needs an Executioner) By Wojciech Albinski. Warsaw: Twoj Styl, 2004. 184 pages. ISBN 83-7163-408-0. Paper. In Polish. Lidia z Kamerunu (Lidia from Cameroon) By Wojciech Albinski. Warsaw: Twoj Styl, 2007. 246 pages. ISBN 978-83-7163-446-8 ....
I, City.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... I, City By Pavel Brycz. Translated from Czech by Joshua Cohen and Marketa Hofmeisterova. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press (info@twistedspoon.com), 2006. 156 pages. ISBN 80-86264-27-0. Paper. $14.50 from the publisher. The novel I, City, by the Czech writer Pavel Brycz (b. 1968) ...
Ptasznik z Wilna.(The Birdsman of Wilno)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Ptasznik z Wilna O Jozefie Mackiewiczu (The Birdsman of Wilno) By Wlodzimierz Bolecki. Krakow: Arcana (www.arcana.pl), 2007. 919 pages. Index of names. ISBN 978-83-89243-19-54-7. Hardcover. In Polish. Until the end of his life, writer Jozef Mackiewicz (1903-1985) was a target of ...
The Archeology of Early Medieval Poland: Discoveries--Hypotheses--Interpretations.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Archeology of Early Medieval Poland: Discoveries--Hypotheses--Interpretations, by Andrzej Buko. Translated by Sylvia Twardo. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 series, vol. 1, under the general editorship of Florin Curta. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xxix + ...
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. New York: Basic Books (specialmarkets@perseusbooks.com), 2007. 234 pages. Detailed index, graphs. ISBN 13: 978-0-465-00252-8. Library of Congress book number: JZ1480.B69 2007. Hardcover. ...