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Helen Weeres: Barking Dogs

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P.C. Hooft Prize 2025 Honours ‘Erudite Novelist’ Maarten ’t Hart

Tom Christiaens 2 min. reading time
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Bound, Freed, and Burdened: Mayken van Angola’s Journey to Liberation in Early Dutch America

Nicole Maskiell 8 min. reading time
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Next Nature Museum Is a Spaceship of Techno-Optimism

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Lennert De Vroey: Bleaching Fields Outside Haarlem

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Belgian Politicians Normalise Alcohol Abuse

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These Translators Have a Chance to Win the Vondel Translation Prize

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From Harlotry To Sex Work: How The Low Countries Deal With Prostitution

Magaly Rodríguez García 7 min. reading time
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Marit Törnqvist’s Children’s Books Are Tiny Islands With Peaceful Moorings

Yelena Schmitz 8 min. reading time
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How Going Dutch Can Save a Billion Euro

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The Afterglow of the Van Gogh Comet

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The ‘Silent Novels’ of Frans Masereel: Godfather of the American Graphic Novel

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Anne Frank: The Vulnerability of a Universal Symbol

Marnix Beyen 11 min. reading time
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A Fleming Is a Belgian Who Speaks Dutch

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‘The Melting’ by Lize Spit: Her Trauma Has No Melting Point

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‘Our Colonial Past Should Make Us More Aware of Modern Forms of Slavery’

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‘You Know Where Your Grave Is, Don’t You?’

Piet Chielens 11 min. reading time
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‘Normal’ Does Not Exist at the Haarlem Museum of the Mind

Edo Dijksterhuis 6 min. reading time
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The Impressive Skies of Landscape Photographer Saskia Boelsums

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‘Dutch Is Our Language: We Use It, but We Don’t Own It’

Henriette Louwerse 5 min. reading time
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‘Centralia’ by Miel Vandepitte: A Race on Acid in the Heart of an Apocalyptic City

Mélanie Huchet 4 min. reading time
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‘Vertrokken Nederlands’ Investigates the Impact of Emigration on Dutch Language and Culture

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“A Good Photographer is Like a Jazz Musician”

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Composer Louis Andriessen (1939-2021), the Rebel Who Became an Institution

Klaas Coulembier 3 min. reading time
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