Trouw and NRC: Best books of the year
Two leading Dutch newspapers, Trouw and NRC, named ‘The dream of The Hague’ one of the best books of the year.
Two leading Dutch newspapers, Trouw and NRC, named ‘The dream of The Hague’ one of the best books of the year.
Praise for “The dream of The Hague” and an interview with me in a live show from Amsterdam on Dutch NPO Radio 1 on the occasion of the awarding of the Libris History Prize.
Interview in Dutch daily Trouw with Scaliger professor Rick Honings about literature, history, creative fiction, and how far authors are allowed to go.
In a weekly series on history books, the Dutch public broadcaster NPO Radio 1 reviewed De droom van Den Haag: a book with the reading experience of a film.
In a review of De droom van Den Haag, Dutch daily NRC described the book as ‘catchy’, ‘entertaining, but also enlightening’.
The progressive Dutch weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer called the story telling in De droom van Den Haag ‘superb and compelling’.
In a television interview for the Dutch regional broadcaster Omroep West, I spoke about the history of The Hague as a city of peace and justice.
In a review, the liberal Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant called ‘De droom van Den Haag’ an ‘extraordinarily lively and well documented book’.
Dutch newspaper Trouw called ‘De droom van Den Haag’ ‘an outstanding book’.
At a live podcast event, I discussed with experts the history of international law and whether modern institutions are fit for purpose.