By Naomi One day I picked up a book from a new-to-me author, with a gorgeous cover and a wacky premise. I fell in love with reading all over again. I don’t know what India Holton puts in her books (actually, I do know, and I’ll talk about it below), but [...]
By Isabelle Before reading Becky Chambers, I had never read sci-fi. I just never felt drawn to it. It was once multiple of my colleagues recommended her books that I decided to give them a try. I started by reading one of Chambers’ novellas, To Be Taught, If Fortunate. I was [...]
By Hilda Bouma The American productivity guru David Allen wrote Team: Getting Things Done with Others, a sequel to his bestseller Getting Things Done. This article originally appeared in Het Financieele Dagblad on June 20, 2024. It’s been translated from the Dutch and edited slightly for space and clarity. One in five [...]
By Lauren The 2024 winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week at New York’s Columbia University. Read on to see what they are and what the jurists had to say about them. Fiction Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips “A beautifully rendered [...]
By Naomi and Júlia Emily Henry is one of the biggest names in contemporary romantic fiction right now. Her books are consistent bestsellers, and three of them are being adapted into film. Her latest novel, Funny Story, released April 24. Júlia (the romance buyer in The Hague) and I (a romance [...]
With the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 set to be announced in May, veteran Dutchnews book reviewer and ABC blog contributor Molly Quell dives into past Booker winner, Amsterdam. Click here to read how author McEwan wrote his award-winning novel, in his own words. [...]
By Dr. Otto Bleker In 2021, Deborah Levy published her third but likely not last autobiographic book, Real Estate, because she dreams of a house where she can live and work at her own pace. But even in her imagination, this home is blurred, undefined and not realistic. She had to [...]
By Dr. Otto Bleker In her second autobiographic volume, The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy brings into practice her new attitude towards the people she’s met, including a male colleague, who talked about his wife without mentioning her name. While he spoke with her, Levy thought: “She does not have a [...]
By Dr. Otto Bleker To be honest, I had never heard of her name before Nathalie Wouters’ article “Wisdom arrives by the years,” was published in the monthly July 2023 NRC magazine. Levy wrote for the theatre, wrote short stories and published her first novel Beautiful Mutants in 1987. In 2012, [...]
Luke and Iris discuss books and interview author Natali Simmonds. In the new season of our ABC Staff Picks, Luke and Iris are back discussing the books they and their colleagues are loving right now. They also interview author Natali Simmonds about her new book, Good Girls Die [...]
