Daniël van der Winden

By profession I’m a software designer; by inclination, I’m a reader and a writer. I write in English and in Dutch.

Amsterdam, NL

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

By Roddy Doyle

Humour and heartbreak trade blows against a backdrop of a family’s quiet collapse.

By James Salter

Recounting his years as a fighter pilot and writer, Salter’s nostalgic and melancholic memoir drips with a Don Draper-esque masculinity.

By Anne de Marcken

I finished reading this book more than a week ago and it keeps running loops inside my mind, its eyes glazed over, its arms outstretched before it.

By Jo Ann Beard

“My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”

By Caoilinn Hughes

Four sisters, three PhDs, and a family quietly coming apart.

By Annie Jacobsen

A cinematic glimpse at nuclear war that hurtles forward without ever losing sight of the people in its path.

By Jesse Ball

In this society of interchangeable robes, telescreens and plastic trays, the machinery of state violence is described with frightening precision.

By Marianne Brooker

Her mother chose to die and Marianne Brooker documented the process, surreal and mundane as may be, into a perfectly composed essay.