Pernilla Ouis and Anne Sofie Roald adopted the headscarf back in the 1980s at the same time as political Islam began to grow. Now they are part of a global trend towards secularisation in which more and more women are shedding their headscarves and veils. [ more ]
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times.
(b.1975) is a writer currently living in Wroclaw, Poland. His debut novel was Copyright (2001) and his most recent publication is Lubiewo, a novel on gay subculture.
Unpolitical confessions
Poland's recently elected Law and Justice Party is attempting to impose its prudish values on the rest of the society. For Left-leaning writers and artists, says one author, this augurs bad times ahead. [more]
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