Inhoudsopgave
Stuck in Motion
Foreword
Mobility: Absurdity and Poetry, Economics and Stubbornness
[Pieter Leroy]
The Scrub Pine Syndrome
Walking in the Netherlands
[Gerard van Westerloo]
My Head is a Small Boat to America
An Extract from Pol Hoste's Montréal, Carnet II
Of Stations Passed
[Luc Devoldere]
The Netherlands Gets on its Bike
[Anton Korteweg]
Ten Cycling Poems
A Gleam of Silver Disappearing into the Clouds
How Time Stopped Flying for Fokker
[Marc Dierikx]
Impressions of Enforced Mobility
On the Waterfront: Eugeen van Mieghem, Harbour Painter
[Erwin Joos]
If the Future Is a Traveller on his Way
An Extract from Thomas Rosenboom's The New Man
In God we Trust... In Cars we Rust
[Filip Matthijs]
Dutch Identity in Europe
[Frits Bolkestein]
How an American Became a Dutch Author
[Ethel Portnoy]
Urban Wildlife
Zoos in the Low Countries
[David van Reybrouck]
‘Why?’ is Not the Right Question
On the Work of Carl Friedman
[Lut Missinne]
Three Columns by Carl Friedman
A Chocolate Oscar for Paula van der Oest
[Dana Linssen]
Speak to Live
On the Work of Ivo Michiels
[Herbert van Uffelen]
Mosaics of Tones
Willem Pijper and his Music
[Harrison Ryker]
The Sublime, Seized and Frozen with a Click.
Moments from the Work of Marie-Jo Lafontaine
[Lars Kwakkenbos]
Anna Enquist: Form and Vision; Analysis and Feeling
[Rita Ingram Givens]
Two Extracts and Three Poems
by Anna Enquist
Like the Music of our Time
The Rhythm in the Work of Photographer and Filmmaker Anton Corbijn
[Johan de Vos]
A Museological Dilemma
The New Van Abbe Museum
[Din Pieters]
The End of Melancholy
Mechelen Revisited
[Derek Blyth]
The Song of the Inner Voice
Karel Appel's Serial Versatility
[Frank van der Ploeg]
A Total Eclipse of the Heart
About Dirk van Bastelaere
[Geert Buelens]
An Extract and Three Poems
by Dirk van Bastelaere
How the Dutch Lost their Innocence
[Philip van Praag]
Islands of Difference
Beguinages in the Medieval Low Countries
[Walter Simons]
The Hague, International Centre of Peace and Justice
[Arthur Eyffinger]
Portrait of the Artist as a Perennial Angry Young Man
Gerald Van Der Kaap, Non-Genre Artist
[Tineke Reijnders]
Icons without Religion
The Work of Dan van Severen
[Roland Jooris]
Cohesion in the City
The Architecture and Urban Design of Jo Coenen
[Hans Ibelings]
Oases that Speak for Themselves
Gardens by Jacques Wirtz
[Gerritjan Deunk]
Chronicle
Architecture
What's to See on the Motorway?
The First Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam
Cultural Policy
Making a Case for Multatuli
The Dutch-Flemish Centre for Europe in Brussels
Surinam and the Dutch Language Union
Dance and Theatre
From the Banal to the Universal
Alain Platel and Les Ballets C de la B
Tenderness... on the Rocks
Herman van Veen, Harlequin
History
Ostend Revisited
A Legacy of Elegant Scholarship
Professor Ernst Kossmann Remembered
A European Isle
Raoul van Caenegem's ‘History of England’
Language
The Other Ninety-Six Languages of the Netherlands
The Other Languages of Brussels
Literature
Laurels Casting Lustre
J.M.Coetzee's Anthology of Dutch Modernist Poems
‘I am a stream of words’
ABC (Antwerp World Book Capital) 2004-XYZ 2005
Engineers of the Soul
Writers and Water Management in the Soviet Union
Music
Life during God's Break
Pop Music in Flanders
Peter Schat, Acting and Blundering in Freedom
Science
‘The only use of these flowers is to be a delight for the eyes’
Rumphius' Orchids
Introducing the World
Abraham Ortelius and his Theatrum orbis terrarum
Society
Sprinting between Kitchen, Children and Podium
The Life and Times of Fanny Blankers-Koen
Gazette van Detroit: The Voice of the Flemish in North America for 90 Years
Landscapes of Leisure
Visual Arts
A Statue of Woman
Emmy Andriesse, Photographer
The Aftermath and the Aftermath's Aftermath of Dada in the Low Countries
Now (or Never)... Rubens
Short Takes
Bibliography of selected Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced November 22, 2002 - November 21, 2003)
Contributors
Translators