2008

May

Warch Watch
Charlie Parker: Celerity (Celebrity) 
May 13th
Bird-watcher
May 13th
Great novels about wasting time
May 13th
1968 - All along the watchtower
May 9th
1968 en 1989
May 9th
Quand la France s'ennuie…
May 8th
Art Is a Cupboard!
May 7th
In paintings by Monet and Manet we see how...
May 3rd
Un Indien dans le siècle
May 2nd

Apr

Letting Go
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
Jacques Dutronc viert vandaag zijn vijfenzestigste verjaardag - L’Opportuniste
Apr 28th
“When I was four I wanted to be Jesus. It was only a short...”
— Anselm Kiefer. Zie ook: Simon...
Apr 28th
“IT was the year of years, the year of craziness, the year of...”
— The Accidental Rebel - Paul...
Apr 26th
My grandfather reads online literature to...
Apr 23rd
The phenomenal Slavoj Zizek
Apr 23rd
“Een kort overzicht van onze buitenlandse politiek van de...”
— Henk Hofland » De kleine...
Apr 23rd
Sielvoeplè
Apr 23rd
A bad case of nostalgia
Apr 22nd
Arms and the Man
Apr 22nd
The Top 100 Public Intellectuals
Apr 22nd
Warch Watch
We missen hem al twintig jaar: Pierre Desproges (1939-1988)
Apr 19th
“Newton probably didn’t get bonked on the head by an...”
— Christopher Hitchens las de...
Apr 18th
1968: a tour of Europe's revolts
Apr 17th
Warch Watch
Nico Sings Chelsea Girls in the Chelsea Hotel
Apr 15th
After America
Apr 15th
“Het liberalisme heeft geen enkele affiniteit met het...”
— Dirk Verhofstadt over Rita...
Apr 15th
Vrije mening
Apr 14th
Le quotidien de 1968
Apr 13th
What Have We Learned, If Anything?
Apr 13th
“The window of opportunity opened by the Oslo agreement has...”
— Back in the ghetto - Göran...
Apr 10th
Filmscenario Christen-Fitna
Apr 10th
Slow sex
Apr 9th
Beckett's ancestors
Apr 8th
I was deranged when I embraced Islam
Apr 8th
De Groene Amsterdammer
Apr 7th
Writing the nation
Apr 3rd
Warch Watch
Vladimir Nabokov over Lolita. Zie ook deel 2 (via)
Apr 1st

Mar

“With Kosovo unilaterally declaring independence and a host...”
— How to Start Your Own Country...
Mar 31st
“Some years ago, I was awakened early one morning by a phone...”
— It’s not you, it’s...
Mar 30th
Georges Simenon, the existential hack
Mar 20th
Hugo Claus 1929-2008
Mar 19th
Literature's ageless loves
Mar 19th
Just the Facts, Ma’Am
Mar 18th
Ongelooflijk leuk, zeg maar
Mar 18th
The seven deadly personality disorders
Mar 15th
Gillen en geraas
Mar 15th
The mother of so much
Mar 14th
Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'
Mar 14th
Flaubert's last letters
Mar 14th
The 2,000-Year-Old Panic
Mar 13th
Journey of Mankind - The Peopling of the World
Mar 13th
Rationalising the irrational
Mar 12th
De Franse krant Libération wordt - tgv Le Salon du Livre -...
Mar 12th
Oude mensen bij Couperus
Mar 12th
Warch Watch
Jan De Cock: Denkmal 11 in het Moma. The New Yorker: Stop Making Sense.
Mar 11th
Warch Watch
Toen hij, vandaag dertig jaar geleden, om het leven kwam, hadden wij hem al lang afgeschreven. Maar...
Mar 11th
The perfect novel you've never heard of
Mar 10th
Brideshead Revisited revisited
Mar 10th
Secret Skin
Mar 9th
Wij nemen ons verlies veel moeilijker, dan...
Mar 9th
“Here we go again.”
— A Family Tree of Literary...
Mar 9th
The man who ruined the novel
Mar 6th
Sous les pavés le vinyle
Mar 6th
Typology
Mar 5th
“Do directors find sex scenes embarrassing? Is the urinal in...”
— 50 arts secrets revealed
Mar 3rd
“Stel je voor dat het leven zin heeft”
— De tien geboden van Maarten...
Mar 3rd

Feb

Babble with Beckett
Feb 27th
Abonnement opzeggen?
Feb 26th
Echoes of Amado in the Dark and the Light
Feb 26th
What they would have wanted
Feb 24th
“Ze hebben de mond nogal vol over het Nieuwe Kwaad en over...”
— Gerrit Komrij over de bijdrage...
Feb 22nd
Killing Joke
Feb 21st
“Au fond, j’ai fait mienne l’analyse de...”
— Nicolas Sarkozy, lecteur de...
Feb 21st
“Fidel’s exit means continuity. For change, look to...”
— Ignacio Ramonet
Feb 21st
“Alain Robbe-Grillet aimait bien maman. C’est normal:...”
— Claude, dochter van Nathalie...
Feb 20th
A Taxonomy of Lit
Feb 20th
Obamamatopoeia
Feb 20th
Look Homeward, Angel
Feb 19th
“On July 4, 1965, Jane Fonda and her husband-to-be, Roger...”
— When Mrs Robinson met Dr....
Feb 17th
Migraine - Perspectives on a headache
Feb 15th
What we talk about when we talk about ...
Feb 14th
Valentijn
Feb 14th
“Leaders of the opposition are calling it surreal, ubu-esque....”
— Neuilly Prat
Feb 13th
“Every human is a translator.”
— Translators and Their Work:...
Feb 13th
Die Wohlgesinnten
Feb 12th
“Bush Is Too Horrendous to Be Forgotten”
— Philip Roth
Feb 11th
Geef de Belgen digitale vrijheid
Feb 10th
“Although publishers can turn an electronic file into a...”
— Rachel Donadio - Waiting for...
Feb 3rd
Greatest stories never told
Feb 1st

Jan

The Story behind Hitler's Rise to Power
Jan 31st
A natural-language analysis of Bush's speech
Jan 31st
Ik ben in hoge mate géén deelnemer
Jan 30th
68
Jan 30th
Lucifer in het hooi
Jan 28th
Le souverain et la comtesse Bruni
Jan 27th
“I’ve come to understand that your remark “The...”
— Rilke’s Letters to a...
Jan 27th
The 'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe
Jan 27th
De rustplaats van Bobby Fischer
Jan 27th
Silence Will Be the Best Response: Regarding...
Jan 25th
The Last Letter of Patrice Lumumba
Jan 20th
“1) Ne pas parler à la future Mme Sarkozy de vos goûts...”
— 24 conseils au président de la...
Jan 20th
A new cultural revolution
Jan 20th
Warch Watch
Cormac McCarthy bij Oprah 
Jan 20th
Eric Hobsbawm: Diary
Jan 16th
Turkey's Dreyfus Affair (of Sorts)
Jan 13th
Imre Kertész's heart of stone
Jan 13th
Looking back at the Booker: John Berger
Jan 9th
Borges and the Foreseeable Future
Jan 8th
Look back in wonder
Jan 7th
Warch Watch
In het eerste nummer van 2008 portretteert De Groene Amsterdammer een dertigtal mensen die ons in...
Jan 6th
The Genius of Berlin
Jan 5th
Simone de Beauvoir, la scandaleuse
Jan 3rd
Oud Nieuw Jaar
Jan 3rd
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for...
Jan 2nd

2007

Dec

British Vision
Dec 28th
No Longer the City of ‘Bonfire’ in Flames
Dec 17th
KENT DIE MAN DAN GEEN SCHAAMTE?
Dec 13th
Pierre Mertens: Le pays qui ne s'aimait plus
Dec 12th
Do we need a literary canon?
Dec 12th
Woke Up This Morning
Dec 5th
“The last art form to be tethered to realism, its factual...”
— Is Photography Dead?
Dec 5th
Ik ben een literaire schrokop
Dec 5th
“Een staatshervorming is niet hetzelfde als de heraanleg van...”
— Jan Blommaert - De verkleining...
Dec 4th
The moral agent
Dec 3rd

Nov

“What does a free society require of believers and...”
— Timothy Garton Ash
Nov 30th
Fimoculous.com: 2007 Lists
Nov 27th
That's the best thing we've read all year
Nov 25th
Warch Watch
Op 24 november 1997 overleed ‘la religieuse de la chanson française’ Barbara. Le Monde:...
Nov 24th
“Als ik in Amsterdam ben valt het me telkens opnieuw op wat...”
— Heleen Mees - De...
Nov 24th
“Zeven jaar na het verschijnen van zijn essay ‘Het...”
— Pieter van Os analyseert de...
Nov 21st
A new cosmopolitanism is in the air
Nov 21st
Warch Watch
Het beste van Nederland, vanavond in Gent, komende weken op vele plaatsen: Spinvis (hier met Wespen...
Nov 21st
Walter De Bock
Nov 20th
Movable Types - How "War and Peace" works
Nov 20th
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978
Nov 20th
A classic by any other name
Nov 19th
Het ziet er naar uit dat de rode telefooncellen uit het...
Nov 18th
“Het wordt gemaakt door een kliekje loftsocialisten en...”
— En toch neemt...
Nov 18th
Nu ook met Leestafel-archief!
Nov 18th
Holy Communion
Nov 18th
“Without that,” and he glanced over at the satchel in which...”
— Joe Klein, oud-collega bij...
Nov 18th
Ian Buruma: Lucky little Countries?
Nov 14th
Farewell to a literary great, with chutzpah
Nov 12th
Warch Watch
In Europa. Vanaf vandaag op Nederland 2. Met een uitstekende website en podcasts.
Nov 11th

11 november

Negenentachtig jaar geleden kwam een einde aan De Groote Oorlog.BBC - History - World War One Plus:...
Nov 11th
Faking it
Nov 10th
Le laid concentré
Nov 8th
“There are so many ways to be interested in Frida Kahlo that...”
— All Souls. Peter Schjeldahl...
Nov 7th
A Writer Who Always Sees History in the...
Nov 6th
Een blog voor je kop
Nov 5th
Vive le punk!
Nov 5th

Oct

Future Reading
Oct 30th
Should newspaper Web sites really be free?
Oct 28th