January 2026

DUTCH (and Flemish!) TREAT

The rules of the asylum (De regels van het gesticht),
by Rob Chrispijn

The fanfare of hunger and thirst (De fanfare van honger en dorst),
by Lieven Tavernier

The Complaint Of New Amsterdam, by Jacob Steendam

Jim, I’d like to know (Jim ik zou willen weten), by Hans Lodeizen and translated by James Brockway

The Idiot in the bath (De idioot in het bad), by M. Vasalis and translated by David Mc. Kay

MUSIC

Girlfriend in a coma, by The Smiths

Strange fruit, by Billie Holiday

The Pill, by Loretta Lynn

Polly, by Nirvana

Age ain’t nothing but a number, by Aaliyah

Stan, by Eminem

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. by Sufjan Stevens

Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Je T’aime… Moi non plus, by Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin

Stress, by Justice

POETRY

Death and Taxes, by Donald Gardner

Assimilating The Only Surviving Immolated Neo Conservative, by Colin James

She won’t read this, by Allan Lake

Lopsideways, by Diarmuid ó Maolalaí

‘SOAPBOX ROW’, by Stephen Barile

The Armchair, by Paul Short

Get out of your skull, by Sander Groen

Red, by Marcus Slingsby

Beware the Jabberwock, by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

On finding my mother's old blueprints for a pool we never built, by Jonathan Fletcher

(VISUAL) ART

This Is Not A Vape Pen, by Sean Bw Parker

The Deepening Panic In Metal, by Bill Wolak

Ruby Lincoln, by Alaina Hammond

S/he, by Amanda Yskamp

A day at the beach collage mixed media, by Anthony George Chianese

At home with Surrealism, by Janina Aza Karpinska