Category: Isabel Harlaar
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Erasure Poem: Where we think that information produces meaning, the opposite occurs
Read more: Erasure Poem: Where we think that information produces meaning, the opposite occursA while ago I shared an erasure poem with you that I made with a page from a book I thoroughly enjoyed. This poem is not at all a consequence of love, but of utter confusion. I don’t think I ever took longer to read a single page before I was assigned to read this…
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Revolution in the Bed: In Defence of Sleep
Read more: Revolution in the Bed: In Defence of SleepMeet the white-crowned sparrow. Although it might look like any regular North American bird (albeit very cute and fluffy), the zonotrichia leucophrys has a distinguishing factor that sets it apart from our Dutch mus: its ability to stay awake for seven days during its migration. Over the past few years, various American universities and research…
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Stiftgedicht: Imagine a Kiss
Read more: Stiftgedicht: Imagine a KissClick the image to view full screen. Page 366 from “What I loved” by Siri Hustvedt (2003).
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A Smokey Haze: A Review of Inherent Vice
Read more: A Smokey Haze: A Review of Inherent ViceIn 1970, Doc Sportello, a private investigator with a soft spot for pot smoking, receives a visit from his former girlfriend Shasta Fay Hepworth. As it turns out she wants him to help her out with a plot to kidnap her current boyfriend, real estate magnate Mickey Wolfmann, which Wolfmann’s wife and her boyfriend have…
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Books between the bicycles – Special bookstores of Amsterdam
Read more: Books between the bicycles – Special bookstores of AmsterdamInspired by Tessel’s article on Ghent’s best bookstores, I planned on writing a similar guide on Berlin’s most scrumptious book deli’s after a recent weekend trip to the German capital. Turns out all the bookstores I wanted to visit were located exactly on the other side of Berlin than the neighbourhood I was staying in…
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