Joost de vries and Thijs Lijster in conversation.

As part of the University of Groningen’s Arts Festival, that took place September 2024, EBB consortium member Thijs Lijster had a public conversation with Joost de Vries. Joost de Vries is an acclaimed novelist and essayist, and adjunct editor-in-chief of the Dutch weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. His books, including The Republic and Higher Powers, have been translated in over ten languages. De Vries and Lijster were interviewed by Roos Custers about the ‘power of imagination’, and how it manifests itself in different ways in essays, novels and philosophical writing.

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