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The United States remains the second most popular foreign destination for artists from the Netherlands.
J. Slauerhoff’s romantic novel ‘Adrift in the Middle Kingdom’ is for the first time available to English-language readers.
The Dutch poet, novelist and travel writer will be granted his fourth honorary doctorate.
Where once there was a checkpoint in France, the slogan 'Let us be ungovernable' can be read along the border. Luc Devoldere wonders what the graffiti artists mean by this.
Interest in the work of Flemish woodcut artist Frans Masereel has increased substantially in the US and the UK. Masereel biographer Joris van Parys knows how that came about.
When you travel to West Wales you might end up in 'Little Flanders', once the home of 'brave and robust hard workers'.
Derek Blyth points out a unique Belgian phenomenon, the trade in paper beach flowers.
Our summer selection of Dutch-language poetry that has recently been translated into English.
When it comes to solving the crisis of the neerlandistiek in the Netherlands, universities can learn a lot from their colleagues in the United States.
Large-scale research shows that the Dutch are unanimous about what makes the Netherlands the Netherlands, despite sharp contradictions in the public debate.
He sets fire to furniture, makes seats grow and locks people in clocks to manipulate time. Designer Maarten Baas continues to surprise.
The Netherlands celebrates extensively that women are allowed to vote there since 1919. Yet the struggle is far from over.
In the Flemish music industry, pop and rock photographer Alex Vanhee has been a household name for more than 25 years now.
One hundred years ago, the treaty that would finally end World War I was signed in Versailles. A frustrating experience for war-battered Belgium.
This week's Friday Verses are written by Pieter Olde Rikkert. We selected his poem ‘Two Girls’.
Derek Blyth expresses his love for the carillons of Flanders and the Netherlands.
A Year on the Post is a series of interviews with Cultural Attachés of the Netherlands about their experiences abroad. This edition: Joost Taverne in New York.
The anxieties around the status of the language we speak, find a precedent in the nineteenth-century Netherlands.
What is the result of the deal between Google Books and the Ghent University Library?
Studying Dutch abroad signifies considerable economic and cultural added value. But are the Dutch and Flemish politicians truly aware of this untapped potential?
In her debut novel 'Niemand keek omhoog’ Evelien Vos raises the question: to what extent can we control our lives?
