SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

Each episode Schaap challenges herself to learn a new Dutch dialect. She meets up with other famous Dutch and Flemish people, who originate from or live in the region where the dialect is spoken.

THE moment the Belgian Parliament opened last November, the dangerous and complicated language question provoked a new ministerial overturn; and a crisis has been latent ever since. The November ...