Juliette Bretan

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Juliette Bretan |Seamus Perry |Nicola Upson |E. J. Clery

Promising comfort is what a good stew should offer – but boeuf en daube, from Provence, with its cragged hunks of meat bespangled with olives and doused in shimmering, sepia-coloured broth, yields (if cooked correctly) exceptional pleasures. Or at least Mr Bankes in To the Lighthouse thinks so: “He had eaten attentively. It was rich; it was tender. It was perfectly cooked”.

Jul 31, 2024 | notesfrompoland.com | Juliette Bretan

Accommodation prices in Warsaw have soared this week for the nights of Taylor Swift's three concerts.

Jul 15, 2024 | engelsbergideas.com | Juliette Bretan

Bowling down the highway between Vilnius and Kaunas late one evening last week in a 1990s BMW E34 5 series – the car’s broken parts deftly duct-taped up before departure – and to the sound of second-hand cassette mixtapes of Whitney Houston and Canadian synth-pop, there was time for one more, last-minute geopolitical detour.

Jan 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Juliette Bretan

Digressing from decidedly prosaic themes in a letter to his mother in December 1919 – a lingering cold, Christmas plans and a vague New Year's resolution of writing ‘a long poem I have had on my mind for a long time’ – to include a rousing, two-pronged critique against American apathy towards global peacemaking, and the complicated reconstruction of new nation-states, T.S. Eliot pulls no punches at the state of post-war Europe: The peace treaty seems to be held up indefinitely in America.

Jul 24, 2023 | engelsbergideas.com | Juliette Bretan

Strawberry buns at The End of the World Café: thoughts on the Polish-Russian border The border between Poland and the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad has an especially eerie resonance in these troubled times. There’s a kind-of coffeehouse geopolitics at play in Krynica Morska, the last town in Poland before the Kaliningrad Oblast, the westernmost federal subject of Russia, which sits between Poland and Lithuania.