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How can we counteract the decline in reading, especially among young people? Former publisher Henk Pröpper has a message for politicians.
The only remaining professional ballet company in Belgium celebrates. But the future is uncertain.
The artist dismantles stereotypes about women and people of colour.
An expert selection committee chose the Dutch book as one of the ten winners from the more than one hundred thousand books that were published that year in China.
Amarylis De Gryse got inspired by the painting 'The Company of Captain Albert Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Conijn'. She explores the inner life of a militiaman.
Remarkable conclusions from the very first global study of the preservation of Dutch language, culture and identity.
Belgian politician Charles Michel made a rapid rise to the political pinnacle of Europe.
Jonas Vansteenkiste creates spaces that are best described as ‘mental environments’. He invites the audience to enter.
Tharim Cornelisse made a poetic film after the poem ‘The Method iv.' by Arno Van Vlierberghe.
Few Flemish women have played such a major role in political history and are nearly forgotten today as Matilda of Flanders.
You can choose which Flemish and Dutch works of art deserve a place in the CODART Canon.
In his latest poetry collection 'Hopper on the hill', Roel Richelieu Van Londersele is inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper.
Academics from all over the world gathered in London to talk about the language, arts, literature and history of Flanders and the Netherlands.
When it comes to language, Belgium has a complex history. That is beautifully illustrated by the position of French-language literature written at the end of the 19th century by Flemings.
Seventy years ago, James Ensor died in a hospital in Ostend. Writer Koen Peeters brings an ode to this ‘realist, pleinairist, painter of light and masks’.
Suzanna van Oers made a poetic film after the poem ‘Life on Mars’ by Peter Verhelst.
A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.
Dutch writers Wessel te Gussinklo and Sjeng Scheijen have won the 2019 BookSpot Literature Prize.
Latin is often denounced for being elitist, but people tend to forget that, before, anyone had to master it as a second language. Therefore, not a single European nation could feel disadvantaged by Latin.
This week's Friday Verses are written by Jonas Bruyneel. We selected his poem ‘Glass Borders’.
In the twentieth century, the Dutch gradually became more concerned about cleanliness in their household than about comfort.
Mariken Heitman has written a penetrating debut about gender identity.
Fifty years ago, Jan Wolkers shook the Netherlands to its foundations with 'Turkish Delight'. Aleid Truijens blushed when she reread his taboo-breaking classic novel.
Volume 68 (2018) of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art appeared.
What has happened to the East Germans since 9 November 1989? They had celebrated the prompt reunification with exuberant joy. However today, the gap between East and West still exists.
