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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It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

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.

By S.H. Fernando Jr.

A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.

By Samantha Harvey

Six astronauts orbit Earth sixteen times in twenty-four hours. Harvey makes you feel every pass.