The Low Countries. Jaargang 12(2004)– [tijdschrift] The Low Countries– Auteursrechtelijk beschermd 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