For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were available in English. They fell out of print, but Pu
She came to buy herself a brand-new face. It seemed too dear. A frock would have to do. That got her in a fitting room where she became psychotic. Was it the light? Her skin? That
FRICTION (II) Who made the young me sweat in bed with visions from the psychiatric ward girls who’ve grown obsessed with the man and the touch of the man, and the touch of the wo
She came to buy herself a brand-new face. It seemed too dear. A frock would have to do. That got her in a fitting room where she became psychotic. Was it the light? Her skin? That
Seventy-five years ago, on a cold winter’s day – 27 January, 1945 – in Poland, the Dutch doctor and trainee psychiatrist Eddy de Wind saw Russian troops in white camouflage s
