On a brisk December evening in Antwerp, the city was cloaked in a typical winter chill, the kind that makes you question why you ever leave your house. It was the kind of night that beckoned for the comfortable seats of a warm cinema. The streets shimmered with rain, the air thick with the scent …
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Artikels over de klassieke muzen alsook filmrecensies en fotografie.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, by Paul Hawken
Let’s face it: reading about climate change usually feels like being trapped in a monologue delivered by a doomsday prophet. Fire, floods, famine… fun times ahead! But what if, instead of grim inevitability, we were handed an actual plan? Enter Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. The book that doesn’t …
50 Things that Made the Modern Economy, by Tim Harford
Have you ever stared at a barcode and thought, “Wow, this little strip of black and white lines is basically the linchpin of global capitalism”? No? Well, Tim Harford has. In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, he takes the seemingly mundane detritus of human progress: things like barcodes, shipping containers, and artificial light. …
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell
Transcending the boundaries of time (as all good poets must, lest they be doomed to mere historical footnote status), are you prepared to catapult yourself headfirst into the ever-turbulent, lace-collared, soul-wracked existence of John Donne? Yes, that John Donne: the one who turned flea bites into flirtation and existential crises into world-class verse. Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations …
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Hidden World of The Borrowers
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thimble Cupboard. Within the hallowed, dog-eared pages of children’s literature lies a tale so miniature, so delightfully domestic in scale, that it might just crawl under your floorboards and redecorate with a postage stamp. I speak, of course, of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, first published in 1952—an …
Actuele kleinkunst
Dagje vakantie, liedje zingen, grapje bedenken. En dan vooral moderne versies van oude liedjes. Want ik herschrijf wel vaker bestaande liedjes met een nieuwere tekst. Of het parodie of persiflage is, daar zijn we nog niet helemaal uit. Bon, muziek dus. Iek wiel deze nacht baa men liefke gon sloape(Ik wil deze nacht bij mijn …