Lems founder Andrew Rademacher is obsessed with wider toe boxes, and he's taking his vision into the running market. Rademacher started the brand in 2011 as a casual lifestyle shoe company. "I had ...

The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality. In his autobiographical essay “Chance and Order,” ...

The “Solaris” author’s centenary is being celebrated from Poland to the International Space Station. The range of his work is similarly dizzying. By Roisin Kiberd In “The Eighth Voyage,” a short story ...

After World War II, Lem never returned to his hometown. But he often referred to Lviv (formerly Lwów) in his books. Which locations were particularly close to the heart of the future author of Solaris ...

What if making mistakes isn’t a detour on the road to the truth? What if it was actually part of the journey? That idea was at the heart of much of the work of Polish writer Stanisław Lem. A ...

Fourteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem. And for my money, it won’t be surpassing him anytime soon. Granted, ...

Apart from fiction, essay writing constitutes a significant part of Stanisław Lem's writing. He devotes the lion's share of his 1963 collection entitled ‘Summa Technologiae’ to a review of the era’s ...