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by Damla and Naomi Unless you have been living in a strict digital detox and have avoided all social media platforms in the last month (honestly, that sounds rather blissful, no judgement), then you have most likely heard that Taylor Swift has announced her 12th album, The Life of A Showgirl, [...]
By Naomi It's Friday August 1st, 2008. My mom is picking ten-year-old little me up from a week-long dance camp. I get in the car, and she has Breaking Dawn on the passenger seat, even though it's not supposed to come out until the next Monday. The tiny newspaper shop in [...]
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the [...]
by Else For the last 14 years, my answer to the question "What is your favourite fantasy series?" has been the same: Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson. But how could someone ever know this is my favourite book series of all time? Well, first of all, I tell [...]
by Damla The shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prizes has been announced this week, highlighting six books among an impressive collection. This year's selection revolves around themes of family: what can bring them together, and what can break them apart. Among the many critically acclaimed nominees is a previous Booker Prize [...]
By Sophie This week, 20-28 September, is the first ever Week van het verboden boek in The Netherlands, and next week, 5-11 October, is Banned Books Week in the U.S. We're paying attention to it, not just because it is almost an epidemic by now over there, but because it [...]
The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter [...]
By Naomi It feels like it's been here for a while, but today it is official: fall has begun! 'Tis the season to get cozy on your couch, wrapped up in a blanket, with a cup of tea at your elbow and a good book in your hands. You can listen [...]
by Iris Our Leidschendam store in the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands opened its doors in 2021. It was pandemic times and the many extra rules and regulations didn't make for the smoothest of starts. But four years later we're still here, and it's well past time to bring you along [...]
by Claudio Some of us would like to believe that the days when we were still being ruled by quants and risk analysts are drawing to a close. That by now we would be reasoned to tears and sucked empty from looking at the world through the veil of spreadsheets and [...]
