The house with the palm

Illustrations for the April book review section

1. A French woman tea-poison a Dutch tourist she offered to take care of, in new thriller Het huis met de palm by Esther Verhoef
2. “Niks intro, shit begint als het begint”. Poet Sasja Janssen connects De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig “screaming into your soul” to the blackbird bringing her existential questions early morning every spring, for the review of Tekstboek Jeugd.
3. “So here I sit, rejections on every finger, slowly sinking, and without a heart”. ⛓️️‍♀️
   Gothic Lesbian heartbreak in Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, written all the way back in 1936. For De Volskrant, aka the recently awarded World’s best designed newspaper