Number 41 | How Can This Be Possible? A Survey of Dutch Writing

How The Light Gets In

Niña Weijers·21st January 2017

If you really want to encourage people to read literature, you’re better off adding a certain mystique. Because the secret the writer is faced with, the secret of language and of reality, is shared by the reader.

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Statement & Legal Activities

Ester Naomi Perquin·21st January 2017

Statement I wasn’t there that night. And if I was, I didn’t know. Not that they were drinking,...

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Walking Urge

Thijs de Boer·21st January 2017

I’ve heard people say that in your dreams you can never have any control over the light. And that if you want to know for sure whether or not you’re dreaming, you have to try turning the light off or on.

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Four Poems by Mustafa Stitou

Mustafa Stitou·21st January 2017

On leaving the bar I heard / a painter say that astronauts / often grew up without a father.

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A Small Planet

Maartje Wortel·21st January 2017

When you move house, you move the stuff with you. Beneath a few notebooks and rubber bands, there’s a letter from a former lover. You no longer see each other.

Fiction Number 41 | How Can This Be Possible? A Survey of Dutch Writing

Invisible Books

Thomas Heerma van Voss·21st January 2017

I still get asked about it on the odd occasion. By the handful of people who saw me...

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Table Talk

Ester Naomi Perquin·21st January 2017

Table Talk (consisting of three poems) 1 When people talk about people they say ‘they’. They do it...

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Ten Paintings

Iris Le Rütte·21st January 2017

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She

Philip Huff·21st January 2017

He loved her so much he doesn’t believe it now; he laughs about it, a long, hard and cynical laugh. It is the laugh of someone who has lost.

Fiction Number 41 | How Can This Be Possible? A Survey of Dutch Writing

Do Not Pet

Nina Polak·20th January 2017

Nothing better to put a broken heart into perspective, I think to myself, than the inanity of the llama, the enlightenment of the sloth, the opportunism of the chimpanzee.

Fiction Number 41 | How Can This Be Possible? A Survey of Dutch Writing

Like a Fleeting Shadow

Lynn Berger·20th January 2017

That’s the irony with photography: photos can halt time or slow it down, but they can also let time pass with merciless speed. In Sanguinetti’s work, Guille and Belinda grow up in seconds.

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Day 1851

Hanna Bervoets·20th January 2017

Today does not mark anything particularly special, but nevertheless there is an 8o per cent chance that today is a special day: I must increase measurement sensitivity, be alert to abnormal behaviour.

Fiction Number 41 | How Can This Be Possible? A Survey of Dutch Writing

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