Idyllen · Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer · Netherlands (2025)
A poetic collection exploring the search for beauty in a rapidly changing world.
Tag: Netherlands
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The Safekeep 🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Safekeep · Yael van der Wouden · Netherlands (2024)
Set in 1961 rural Netherlands, the story of Isabel, a recluse whose ordered life is disrupted when her brother’s girlfriend stays for the summer. Winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and a landmark for contemporary Dutch literature as the first Dutch-authored novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Garip 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Garip · Altın Gün · Netherlands (2026)
The sixth album from the Amsterdam-based quintet is a tribute to Neşet Ertaş, the legendary Turkish folk bard. This Grammy-nominated band reimagines ten of his compositions using psychedelic rock, Arabesque strings and the Stockholm Studio Orchestra. (Sung in Turkish.)
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Fairphone 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Fairphone · Netherlands
Fairphone is based in Amsterdam and builds phones around repairability and longer use. The Fairphone 6 is modular, with spare parts you can swap yourself, and it comes with an unusually long software support plan. There is also a model running /e/OS.
Fairphone is also unusually open about the production side of its work, sharing information about its partnerships with factories in China and the initiatives it runs to support workers there. A phone you can keep for years, with a company that takes its supply chain seriously.
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Moral Ambition 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Moral Ambition · Rutger Bregman · Netherlands (2024)
What if ambition were measured not by salary or status but by usefulness? Rutger Bregman argues that many careers feel empty not because we fail but because we aim too low. In his view, a generation full of talent is often absorbed by comfortable roles while the most urgent problems of the world remain understaffed.
The argument is simple and concrete. Our professional choices matter. If intelligence and energy flow mainly into sectors driven by profit or prestige, society loses the capacity to act where it is most needed. Bregman invites readers to rethink what success means and to see work as a tool for real impact.
The tone is clear and accessible. It is less a moral lecture than a practical call to raise our standards. (Original language: Dutch.)