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Escucha y lee

Cezary Łazarewicz

The follow up to Łazarewicz's harrowing Żeby Nie Było Śladów (Leave No Trace) depicting the case of the political
murder of Grzegorz Przemyk—which earned Łazarewicz the Nike Literary Award in 2017—the Gorgonowa Case focuses on the case of Rita Gorgonowa, a cause célèbre of the interwar
period in Poland. 

Gorgonowa, a governess having an affair with her employer, was accused of brutally murdering his daughter, the 17-year-old Lusia on New Year’s Eve in 1931. Despite her claims of innocence, Gorgonowa was declared
Poland’s ultimate villain, and eventually convicted. 

But questions remain about this case—the most notorious murder trial of the Second Polish Republic—along with questions about what exactly happened to Gorgonowa post-World War II. Łazarewicz revisits the crime with a contemporary lens and recreates the furor and celebrity revolving around this murder.

Open Letter

Polish Reportage

Did This Hand Kill?

Sean Bye

Katarzyna Boni

The March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged Japan lasted a mere six minutes. But the fallout—the aftershocks, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the country-wide devastation—from this catastrophic event and the trauma experienced by those who survived it is ongoing, if not permanent.

In Ganbare! Workshops on Dying, Polish writer and reporter Katarzyna Boni takes us on a journey through the experience of death and how the living—those of us left behind—learn to grieve. In Ganbare!, some learn how to scuba-dive for the sole purpose of recovering their loved one’s remains; some compile foreign-language dictionaries of “prohibited, ” tsunami-related words so they don’t have to think of them in their mother tongue; many believe in the lingering presence of the ghosts of those whom the wave claimed for itself. Whatever their methods, whatever their mechanisms, whatever their degree of success, the survivors Boni gives voice to in Ganbare! provide an intimate, soul-aching, and above all human look at how people come to deal with loss, trauma, and death.

Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying: Workshops on Dying

Mark Ordon