In @publicbooks.bsky.social I write about two recent Dutch novels that both mobilize the paralyzing anxieties of a culture that once embraced breaking boundaries and now finds itself forced to ask itself if breaking boundaries was ever a good thing. www.publicbooks.org/what-keeps-t...
What Keeps the Dutch Up at Night? - Public BooksAlthough the novels’ protagonists are fascinating, even magnetic characters, they are eerie—all the more so because their unsettling behavior forces the reader to confront what most worries the Nether...www.publicbooks.org