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The Birth of Damn Homo Sapiens: ‘We, Hominids’ by Frank Westerman
18 August 2022
Who are we? Where do we come from? What makes us human? In We, Hominids, the award-winning Dutch non-fiction writer Frank Westerman searches for answers to anthropology’s most fundamental questions. With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the world, in search of the first human bei
Still Reading ‘Turkish Delight’ In the #MeToo Era? Yes, But With Reservations
12 November 2019
Fifty years ago, Jan Wolkers shook the Netherlands to its foundations with Turkish Delight (Turks fruit). From the sixties onwards, the book’s explicit erotic descriptions made it a model of the sexual emancipation of a whole generation. But does the bestseller still deserve its status as a taboo-