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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
The target of Verhaeghe's cultural diagnosis is neoliberalism, which has elevated efficiency to the highest standard and which equates success as a human being with productivity, thus dominating our relationships with our bodies, partners ...
Whether it be in the nearby rural Kempen, the Europe of managers and bureaucrats or distant Ruanda, Peeters’ literary universe expresses an unclamorous devotion to the small and the everyday. The postmodern mocker has turned into a serious...
The wishful, border-breaking collaboration between the Belgian and Dutch education sectors is struggling to get off the ground due to legal obstacles and governmental oversight that isn’t always so benevolent.
It is strange how the Flemish media and government use the word vreemd, a word with connotations such as 'foreign', 'deviant', 'unusual'.
How do we have to treat books that have fallen out of favour or have become taboo due to a changing Zeitgeist and more progressive perceptions?
Belgium has an interim minority government to deal with the corona crisis. The emergency has exacerbated the division in the country. Will Belgium fall apart, or is it actually a laboratory for Europe?
The Dutch bestselling author is back with a novel on European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.
Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.
In both the Netherlands and Belgium, the number of inhabitants from the other country has grown considerably in the past fifteen years.
Vintage Westerman? The continuing quest, the ever changing routes towards the puzzle. The part-journalistic, part-philosophical search. The searching and not finding. The author has found his own distinctive voice and developed a unique fo...
This scientist (born 1958) analyses the emergence of deserts as easily as the collapse of the stock market. Scheffer demonstrates that in these two totallydifferent systems the same warning lights go on on the eve of a major change.
Why does time seem to speed as we get older? Can you think without images? How do the memories of mathematical prodigies function? The Groningen professor in the history of psychology Draaisma sinks his teeth in precisely these questions. S...
It would be much too pessimistic to decide that Ghent has no surprises anymore or that the city has been sanitized and neutralized. If you stroll around the city you are bound to come unexpectedly upon architectural pearls from the many di...
When it comes to people with power, sometimes Chris De Stoop cannot refrain from judgement. Far stronger and more fascinating is the work in which he explores the perceptions of people for whom society has already decided on its judgement....
