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09 februari 2012

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Running against the system

24-6-2010 -

Alan Sillitoe: “I’ve really only got one story – mine”

No one to talk to on a plane

17-6-2010 -

Theroux: "A traveller's worst nightmare is not malaria, but meeting another traveller"

Journalists are storytellers, no more and no less

10-6-2010 -

People Like Us, by Joris Luyendijk: on how the media manipulate reality

Fright and friendship

3-6-2010 -

The world in American Rust is rough and frightening

Are things really what they seem?

27-5-2010 -

'The Little Stranger' is about an upper-class family in a haunted house

“My brain is exploding”

20-5-2010 -

'The Principles of Uncertainty' deals with anything from the experience of immigrants to eating paté in Paris

Between self-righteousness and self-loathing

29-4-2010 -

A humorous book about Andrew's life, which is a mess

Best European Fiction: uncomfortable, uncanny

22-4-2010 -

None of this makes for comforting bedtime reading

The therapeutic potential of drugs

15-4-2010 -

The book embodies a good balance between the glorification and demonisation of drugs

Friendship and cyborgs

1-4-2010 -

The boy who couldn’t sleep and never had to

The magic is in how the story unfolds

25-3-2010 -

Please read this book, so that we can talk about it!

Proust and Cézanne versus neuroscientists

18-3-2010 -

Walt Whitman showed in his poetry what scientists would empirically prove much later

Struggle for identity

11-3-2010 -

Novelist Lalami takes you deep into the Moroccan culture

Successful businessman destroys himself

4-3-2010 -

The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce

4-3-2010 -

The tragic story of a man who drinks himself to death

In love with Russian novelists

25-2-2010 -

Who killed Tolstoy?

Extreme hatred for human life

11-2-2010 -

Nooteboom relativises melancholy and makes painful topics bearable

An antidote to Western prejudices

4-2-2010 -

'The Attack' is about understanding the human condition

The important stuff is always in the footnotes

28-1-2010 -

About Kafka’s funniness, the porn industry or the convention in Las Vegas

An opera inspired by a novel

21-1-2010 -

Six stories, one theme: the dangerous will for power of the dark side of man

The burden of daily life

14-1-2010 -

It is a black day in the very small world of Christopher Boon...

Impossible to keep your hands clean

7-1-2010 -

The narrators in the short stories of Andrew Porter are often young, male, and a bit sad

A novella as a musical

17-12-2009 -

Reading 'Silk', by Baricco, is like reading a cello suite by Bach

Accept that everything is possible

10-12-2009 -

In 'The Eyre Affair', the pub conversations are about Shakespeare

Covering 27 wars, coups and revolutions

3-12-2009 -

In 'Shah of Shahs' reflects journalist Kapuscinski on the nature of dictatorships

Arrogance as an armour

26-11-2009 -

The Procedure, Harry Mulisch

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