The Low Countries. Jaargang 16

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Love and Lust and Low Adventures Trouble in Paradise A Tale of Love and Lust Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here An Extract from Tommy Wieringa's The Dynamics of Desire

Scoring Well The Sexual Emancipation of the Netherlands and Flanders after the Second World War [Wim Trommelmans]

My wife, too, must love me in some way or other An Extract from Louis Paul Boon's Minuet

Courtly Love, Courtly Lust [Joost van Driel]

My life is not yet whole

Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928)

The Underbelly of Literature Pornography in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands [Marita Mathijsen]

Fucking An Extract from Beatrijs Ritsema's To Heart

A Surinamese Marriage John Gabriel Stedman and Joanna [Jeroen Dewulf]

Hello, daughter of the dark woods An Extract frorn Jef Geeraerts' Gangrene 1: Black Venus

Love in a Cold Climate Dangerous Liaisons in the Low Countries (Derek Blyth)

And my sweet love sat on a golden throne An Extract from Nescio's Little Poet

The Nature of Sexual Otherness Midas Dekkers' Dearest Pet [Paul Vincent]

You find true satisfaction only when you let yourself go An Extract from Midas Dekkers' Dearest Pet

The Lovers Ulay & Marina [Saskia Bak]

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Passion Play [Filip Matthijs]

Climate Change and Climate Policy: An Inconvenient Issue, in the Low Countries Too [Pieter Leroy]

On the Visible and the Invisible The Photos of Carl De Keyzer [Johan de Vos]

Birds of a Feather De Hondecoeter and the Birth of a New Genre [Joy Kearney]

Kosher Dutch The Fate of Yiddish in the Netherlands [Hilde Pach]

Architect with a Mission P.J.H. Cuypers: a Catholic Master Builder [Marieke van Rooy]

A Castle by the Dutch Dunes Keukenhof, a Fascinating Piece of Architectural History [Michel Bakker]

Authenticity is Fiction The Emergence of a New Narrative in the Works of Paul Verhaeghen [Sven Vitse]

Nocturne The Art of Hans Op de Beeck [Nicola Oxley and Nicolas de Oliveira]

Respect for the Mystery The Works of Willem Jan Otten [Bart Vervaeck]

Stunning View of a Meadow with Cows Jeroen Doorenweerd's Sanctuaries [Elly Stegeman]

All Roads Lead to Maastricht [Wiel Kusters]

Brussels is Bigger than Belgium [Carl Devos]

We will do our best or our worst together Expo '58 in Brussels [Jef Lambrecht]

Ruusbroec's Legacy Mystical Writings and Charismatic Teaching in the Fourteenth Century [Geert Warnar]

From Avant-Garde to Beau Monde The Paintings of Kees van Dongen [Juleke van Lindert]

‘Literature Makes People Special’ The Work of Jan Siebelink [Daan Cartens]

There is No Such Thing as Bad Publicity Jan Van Beers, or: The Chronique Scandaleuse of a Belgian Painter in Paris and London [Jan Dirk Baetens]

Modern Minstrels City Poets in the Low Countries [Philip Hoorne]

Three City Poems

Ronald Ohlsen (1968-) (second city poet of Groningen)

Jan Eijkelboom (1926-2008) (city poet of Dordrecht)

Architecture Need Not Be Spectacular Jo Crepain's Vision of Building [Marc Dubois]

‘Understanding is a concept we cannot understand’ On the Bridge between Poetry and Science: Conversations with Leo Vroman and Jan Lauwereyns [Bart van der Straeten]

The Life of Johannes Stradanus, Celebrated Bruges Pointer in Florence [Manfred Sellink]

Chronicle

Architecture Not Afraid of Beauty The Architecture of Francine Houben

Film and Theatre Flanders' Own Rain Man Ben X

The Myth and the Man Control: Anton Corbijn's Tribute to Ian Curtis

Lessons in Politics Ivo van Hove's Roman Tragedies

History Never Sell Shell A History of Royal Dutch Shell

Revolutionary without a Revolution Ernest Mandel

Language The United States of Babel Languages in Europe

Literature In the Shelter of the Village Dimitri Verhulst

Tom's Autobiography The Secret Key to The Waste Land

A Fine Old Socialist Hans Koning (1921-2007)

Music Composer Turns Conductor Turns Composer Reinbert de Leeuw and the Schoenberg Ensemble

Philosophy and Science Jonathan Israel, a Champion of Enlightenment

A Mexican Wave for the Academy's Birthday The Bicentenary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Woman of the World Anna Maria van Schurman, Celebrity

Society Proud of the Netherlands?

The Power of Shareholders The Rise and Fall of abn amro

Visual Arts The Flea Market, Not the Antique Shop Belgium in the Eye of Stephan Vanfleteren

School of Cool Design Academy Eindhoven

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