Inhoudsopgave
Always the Same H2O
Foreword
God's Subcontractors
The Dutch and Water
Excerpts from a Log Book on the Scheldt and Maas
Dordrecht, City of Living Water
Nature between Ebb and Flood
The Zwin: from Sea-Inlet to Nature Reserve
A New Atlantis
The Geometric Ideal and Amsterdam's Ring of Canals
Opposites Attract
Living on the Water
How to Paint Water
The Leie as a Stream of Inspiration
Valour on Ice
The Elfstedentocht in Friesland
Solid and Volatile
Twelve Poems Selected by Jozef Deleu
Sailing along the Wagenspoor
On the Sea-Road with the Dutch East India Company
Stormy Weather
Anne Provoost's Ark and Jeroen Brouwers' Houseboat
Close the Sluices!
So you think we've told you everything about the Low Countries and Water?
Footballs, Bikes and Heroes
Johan Cruijff and Eddy Merckx
English = Dutch
A Dossier of Compelling Evidence
Joke van Leeuwen's Light-Hearted Anarchy
A Poem and an Extract
by Joke van Leeuwen
Enough of Laughter?
The Unbridled Expansion of Dutch Cabaret
Extracts
Paint as Mercurochrome
On Vincent Geyskens
Airports and the Environmental Burden of a National Status Symbol
Escapist Survivalism
From AVL to AVL-Ville and Back Again
Tom Lanoye, Literary Multinational
Two Extracts
by Tom Lanoye
An On-Off Affair
Three Hundred and Fifty Years of Dutch-South African Relations
From Dreams to Deeds
Greens in the Belgian Government: the First Four Years
Gain versus Godliness
The Dutch Slave Trade
A Perpetual Masquerade
The Work of Gerrit Komrij
Four Poems and an Extract
by Gerrit Komrij
Richard
Minne, Poetry's Freedom Fighter
Eight Poems
by Richard Minne
Trilingualism in the Low Countries
Latin for the clergy and the academics, French for the upper classes and the Huguenots, and Dutch for everyone else
Lumpen Elegance
The Sculptural Mathemathics of Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Behind the Icon Curtain
Dutch and Flemish Art in Central and Eastern Europe
Philippe Herrewege, a Versatile Musical Shrink
About Flute Stops, Reeds, and Much More
Organs in the Low Countries
Chronicle
Architecture
Pork Chops from the sky
High-Rise Pig Farming from the Architects of MVRDV
The Right Distance
The Architecture of M. José van Hee
Cultural Policy
A Dutch Collection in Dublin
The Fagel Library at Trinity College
The Irish College in Leuven
Showcase on the Rapenburg
Leiden's Bibliotheca Thysiana
Film, Dance and Theatre
What's on an Old Man's Mind?
Luc Perceval's King Lear
Drama and Pure Dance
The Choreographic Quest of Ed Wubbe
Choosing is Losing Dominique Deruddere: Twixt Turnhout and LA
History
A Night of Disaster in the South-West Netherlands
1 February 1953
Tyndale's Testament
Dutch Jewry
Language
The Future of Dutch as a Language of Science
Literature
Loss, Longing and Lamentation
The Work of Oscar van den Boogaard
A Sailor's Grave for Captain Jan
Dutch and American writer Jan de Hartog
Music
A Sound Spectacular?
Hooverphonic's Musical Adventure
Weightless Music
The Work of Simeon ten Holt
Philosophy and Science
Be Glad that Life has no Meaning
On the Essays of Jaap van Heerden
Trailblazers in PGD
Twenty Years of Genetic Medicine at the University of Brussels
A Wider Perception of ‘Science’
Society
The Netherlands and the Tragedy of Srebrenica
The Vlaams Blok
An Annus Horribilis for Dutch Politics
Visual Arts
Fashion for the People
MoMu: Antwerp's New Fashion Museum
Honoré δ'O: Playing Marbles with Art
Short Takes
Bibliography of selected Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced November 22, 2001 - November 21, 2002)
Contributors
Translators
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