20 november, 2017 - /nieuws/1746/amazon-prime-video-acquires-subscription-video-on-demand-worldwide-rights-for-dutch-drama-series-the-neighbors-nieuwe-buren.html
The Dutch hit series is now available on Amazon Prime Video in 200 countries and territories, among them the US, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy and Spain. The drama series centers around two couples, each played by actors who are couples in real life also. In the Netherlands, The Neighbors is produced for the VOD platform Videoland by RTL, where season 3 will premiere in 2018. Amazon has acquired the worldwide rights, with the exception of Benelux, the UK and Ireland, to the Dutch drama s...
5 juli, 2017 - /blog/1436/onrechtvaardig-yes.html
Arme Marc Cavendish, en arme Peter Sagan, zeker, maar wij dienen hier zonder aanziens des persoons te erkennen dat élke grote sportwedstrijd haar reputatie bouwt met behulp van Grote Verhalen. En geen Grote Verhalen zonder drama, intrige, en onvoorspelbaarheid – dat is per slot van rekening toch wat wij (afijn, ik toch) willen. De legende van de Tour is rijkelijk gelardeerd met bedriegers, bedrogenen, smeerlappen en doden. Maar in de laatste jaren werden we niet verwend en het voorspelbar...
14 oktober, 2019 - /nieuws/2812/familiy-secrets-number-one-on-the-dutch-bestseller-chart.html
Family Secrets (the third book of Astrid Holleeder, writer of Judas and Diary of a Witness ) became number one on the Dutch bestseller chart Bestseller 60 in July 2019. ...
27 oktober, 2017 - /nieuws/1689/diary-of-a-witness-by-astrid-holleeder-published-today.html
While Judas is the story about the decision to testify against her brother Willem Holleeder, Diary of a Witness is rather about the consequences of that far-reaching decision. What were the effects on the lives of the Holleeder family: on mother Stien, sister Sonja, the children and their partners, the grandchildren and above all: on Astrid herself? Diary of a Witness offers us a glimpse into the life of someone who, out of necessity, has had to go into hiding and for whom no...
8 mei, 2018 - /nieuws/2070/women-kick-each-other-down-article-for-linda-magazine.html
How many times have we heard that voice since October 2017, the month the uproar started? More often in fact than the outrage about what the action was aimed at: that a majority of women at one point in their lives will be confronted with sexual violence and intimidation. And that these numbers haven’t decreased over the years, but only increased. It’s not about a hand on a knee, a wink or a flirtatious app message. It’s about sexually inappropriate behaviour. About force and ...
5 oktober, 2017 - /nieuws/1613/brand-new-website-saskia-noort-now-online.html
Saskia Noort put the Dutch literary thriller on the map with her debut Terug naar de kust (Back to the Coast, 2003) and has since risen to the absolute top in Holland. She followed up with De eetclub (The Dinner Club), Nieuwe buren (New Neighbours), De verbouwing (The Renovation) and Koorts (Fever). Noort’s thriller Debet (Overdraft), which was published in 2013, is a sequel to her most wellknown book, The Dinner Club, and revea...
30 juni, 2020 - /blog/3107/pop-en-literatuur-99-bruce-springsteen-en-john-steinbeck.html
The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects […] Snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their snouts into it, straight down the country, across the country, through fences, through dooryards, in and out of gullies in straight lines. They did not run on the ground, but on their own roadbeds. They ignored hills and gulches, water courses, fences, houses. Nee, dit is ge...
14 oktober, 2019 - /nieuws/2814/new-novel-of-arnon-grunberg-occupied-territories.html
The new novel of Arnon Grunberg, Occupied Territories, will be published on the 10th of January in the Netherlands. The psychiatrist Otto Kadoke, hero of the bestseller Birthmarks , will return in this novel. Kadoke becomes entangled in a web of halftruths, interpretations, and lies that cost him his job - and destroy his reputation. What’s more: his mother has become a father again at that point, while the father’s caretaker turns out to be an inexhaustible supporter of Christians f...
13 maart, 2016 - /blog/435/afterword-golden-years.html
My wife Manuela and I hosted – with the help of some friends in New York – an exhibition (called Made in Iran) in downtown Manhattan with the Iranian brothers Icy & Sot, two street artists who had just made the transition from Tabriz, their hometown in Iran, to New York – the city they had been dreaming of, where they would meet their friends, musicians, artists and skaters who had already left their country behind them – realizing that the impossibility of returning to Iran would b...
4 juni, 2019 - /blog/2661/pop-en-literatuur-62-led-zeppelin-en-j-r-r-tolkien.html
De boeken van Tolkien gaan al enkele generaties mee. Wie kent ze niet, de goedhartige hobbits, de trotse elfen en knorrige dwergen die het rijk van Midden-Aarde bewonen? Met name de trilogie Lord of the Rings kent nog altijd een ongekende populariteit. De boeken werden aan het begin van dit millennium succesvol verfilmd door Peter Jackson, wat een zoveelste revival tot gevolg had. Het wekt dan ook geen verbazing dat tal van (voornamelijk rock)bands zich lieten inspireren door Tolkien. De...