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Eleanor Wachtel talks with Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner (1980), Czesław Miłosz, about exile, ecstatic pessimism, and the poet's dilemma. Miłosz reads two of his poems - "Dedication" (1945), and "Meaning" from his collection Provinces: Poems 1987-1991 (1991).

Rutu Modan's comics have appeared in magazines and periodicals around the world, and her full-length graphic novels--inspired by real events and family history--have won major awards. Her latest book, Tunnels, is a witty, political, adventure about an archaeological dig in the West Bank. It features rivalries and conflicts that mirror the complexity of contemporary Israeli life. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level…

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with award-winning Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski, a man who champions ardour and joy over irony. They talk about his life, work and growing up in postwar Poland.

More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Julia Hartwig, one of Poland's most highly respected poets. During the Second World War, she was a member of the underground Home Army and a student of the underground university in Warsaw. Also, Ivan Klíma, the foremost Czech novelist and essayist of his generation. Interned as a child at the Terezin concentration camp, he became one of his country's…

More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Ryszard Kapuściński, the preeminent Polish journalist and essayist, for many years the Polish Press Agency's only foreign correspondent, reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in America, Asia and Africa. And Ádám Nádasdy, poet and professor of linguistics, translator and columnist. An acute observer, his memories of childhood in Hungary in the early…