SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

The Flemish director Stijn Coninx never doubted that “Soeur sourire,” his biopic of Belgium’s chart-topping singing nun Jeanine Deckers, could be anything other than a French-speaking film. “It had to ...

“We want a Flemish university.” For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, ...

The chairman of the European Jewish Association has written to the rector of the University of Ghent to ask for an explanation of an online dictionary of Flemish sign language that uses the gestures ...

Wide open for commerce and world trade, rolling in new money, ostentatiously religious and enthusiastic about science and technology — Flanders could be called the Texas of the 16th century. Its brash ...