Evelyn Roll is als sterverslaggever van de Süddeutsche Zeitung al jaren geobsedeerd door de werking van de hersenen en specifiek het geheugen wanneer een slagader in haar brein scheurt: een aneurysma pericallosa. Het is bijna wonderbaarlijk dat ze het overleeft. Haar interesse in de hersenen lijkt bijna voorbestemd. Want het levensgevaarlijke monster in haar hoofd blijkt herinneringen te hebben blootgelegd waar ze jarenlang niet bij kon. Tijdens de operatie die volgt belooft ze zichzelf dan ...

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Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play¿wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay col¿lection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He di...

Jonathan Holslag teaches international politics at the Free University Brussels. He is the author of several books including China's Coming War with Asia and Trapped Giant. He is a special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, a Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and a Nobel Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. He has appeared on CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, CCTV and Al Jazeera, and written f...

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