The Low Countries. Jaargang 20

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The Seriousness of Play Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor

The Dutch Thaw Out When It Freezes Skating as a National Sport [Max Dohle]

Flanders Is Racing, Racing Is Flanders Cycle Racing as a National Sport [Patrick Cornillie]

Let's Play Portfolio [Luc Devoldere]

The People's Bird On Belgians and Their Pigeons [Raf de Bont]

Winning or Playing Nicely Dilemmas in Dutch Football [David Winner]

Man the Player Huizinga's ‘Homo Ludens’ Revisited [Willem Otterspeer]

The Podium for Holland, The Plush Bench for Belgium The Low Countries and the Olympic Games [Hans Vandeweghe]

‘Writing Poetry's Cycling Up Mont Ventoux’ Ten Poems on Sport Cycle ‘Boxers’ Armando

Anti-Freezeland Driek van Wissen

World Champions Nico Scheepmaker

A football match Roland Jooris

1974 Anna Enquist

Mont Ventoux Jan Kal

Eddy Merckx (Winner of the Tour of Flanders, 1969-1975) Willie Verhegghe

Abe Lenstra (1920-1985) Rutger Kopland

St Johan Willem Wilmink

Ghent-Wevelgem Tom Lanoye

From Our Own Correspondent How Foreign Journalists Report the News from Brussels [Derek Blyth]

Literature as Resistance Dutch Clandestine Literature (1940-1945) [Jeroen Dewulf]

Room for Variation The Dance of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui [Lieve Dierckx]

Haarlem Wandering Through Myths [Nop Maas]

‘We Can Get the Witch-Doctor but We Cannot Get God’ Witchcraft in the Low Countries [Robin Briggs]

‘You Don't Know Me’ The Breakthrough of Urszula Antoniak [Karin Wolfs]

Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) at 425 [Karel Porteman]

Five Poems By Joost van den Vondel

The Political Expression of Flemish Nationalism [Jos Bouveroux]

Jan Vanriet and the Beauty of Evil Painting is War [Eric Rinckhout]

Revealing the Clear Secret Harry Mulisch (1927-2010) [Arnold Heumakers]

From Utopia to Vinex Estate The Transformation of the Bijlmermeer District in Amsterdam [Marieke van Rooy]

Searching the Poems as a Suspect Element The Poetry of Charles Ducal [Anneleen de Coux]

Five Poems By Charles Ducal

Lievens and Rembrandt Parallels and Divergences [Amy Golahny]

Piet Hein Eek The Value of Sustainability [Petri Leijdekkers]

Charley Toorop A Deeper Longing [Marja Bosma]

Dredging What Two Small Countries Are Really Big In [Ewald Pironet]

Disruptive Images, Historical Friction On the Work of David Van Reybrouck [Tom van Imschoot]

An Ode to ‘What If’ Thinking The World of Mark Manders [David Stroband]

Dylan's Kin in the Lowlands [Lutgard Mutsaers]

Jeroen Brouwers' Paper Monument [Johan Vandenbroucke]

An Extract from Dateless Days By Jeroen Brouwers

Art and Immigration [Jaap Harskamp]

The Dream in the Reality in the Dream The Universe of Saskia Olde Wolbers [David Stroband]

Chronicle Fashion A Big Friendly Giant Contrasts and Extremes in Walter Van Beirendonck's Clothing

Film and theatre Bullhead Illegal Hormones for the Mass Market

Eccentric, Venomous, Topical Wunderbaum Theatre

How Ontroerend Goed Widened Its International Circuit.

History The Oldest Share Certificate in the World

The ‘Pirenne Phenomenon’

Language Principles for the Linguistic Future of Europe Philippe Van Parijs on Justice, Fairness and Respect among Languages

Literature Sex, Death and Rock 'n' Roll in Peter Pontiac's Cartoons

An Open Book in an Open Landscape Dutch Writers in Beijing

Why Hella S. Haasse's Work Does Not Need Introduction Abroad

Music Imagination Takes You Everywhere dEUS and the Rest of the World

Science Douwe Draaisma and the Mysteries of Autobiographical Memory

Politics The Netherlands Turns Eurosceptic

A New Federal Government for Belgium after 541 Days

Society Land, Wind and Water Eighty Years of the IJsselmeer Dam

Visual arts Animals More True to Life than Humans Marten Toonder

Artistic Experience Knows No Bounds Visual Arts Flanders 2012

The Story of De Stijl. From Mondrian to Van Doesburg

Closed yet Close By The Royal Museum for Fine Arts in Antwerp

A Twenty-Year Long Success Story Museum De Pont in Tilburg

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