Colleen Hoover is queen of the best sellers list. Who is she and why are her books so popular?

There has never been an author who has dominated the USA TODAY Best-SellingBooks list week after week like Colleen Hoover has in 2022. Sure, otherauthors have had multiple titles appear on the best seller list for multipleweeks, but they have all fallen well short of Hoover, who boasted a total of15 titles in a single week this summer. Three of her books, “Reminders ofHim,” “It Ends With Us” and “Verity,” have taken the No. 1 spot so far thisyear.

Hoover has managed to write half of the Top 10 books in sales this year. Overthe past 10 years, she has gone from self-published newbie to bestsellingpowerhouse. And there is no sign of her slowing down. Hoover’s next novel, “ItStarts With Us,” the follow-up to her best selling “It Ends With Us,” is setto publish Oct. 18.

So just who is Colleen Hoover, and how did she and her novels get so popular?

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Author ColleenHoover.

Author Colleen Hoover.

Who is Colleen Hoover?

Colleen Hoover, 42, lives in a small town in east Texas just outside SulfurSprings. She worked for several years as a social worker before becoming acounselor at WIC, a nutrition program for women, children and infants. Whileat WIC, Hoover began to pursue her writing career. She would write on a laptopborrowed from her mother during her off hours, often while one of her sons wasat play rehearsals. She gave the novel to her mother as a Christmas gift, andnot long after, she self-published it to share with friends and family.”Slammed” (2012) would become her first published novel and her first book toappear on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. In total, she has written 22novels and three novellas, and contributed to two anthologies.

What types of books does Colleen Hoover write?

Hoover’s books fall into new adult and young adult genres. The subject mattervaries. For instance, the author’s interest in slam poetry heavily influenced”Slammed.” Both the “Slammed” and the “Hopeless” series were inspired byHoover’s social work career.

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But Hoover has explored different genres in her novels. For example, herinterest in the paranormal led her to write “Layla,” in which the titlecharacter survives a life-threatening attack, after which inexplicable thingsstart happening around her. Hoover also has written thrillers and love storieswith twists and turns involving heartbreak and mental health struggles.

Colleen Hoover: Author dominates best sellers list with 15 books,including ‘It Ends With Us’

Book cover of "It Ends with Us" by ColleenHoover. Bookcover of "It Ends with Us" by ColleenHoover.

Book cover of “It Ends with Us” by Colleen Hoover.

Which Colleen Hoover book should you read first?

“It Ends With Us” is one of Hoover’s most popular and well-received novels,and a good starting point. It has been the highest-ranking novel of Hoover’son the bestsellers list in anticipation of its sequel, “It Starts With Us,”which arrives Oct. 18.

Many of Hoover’s plot lines involve emotionally intense situations includingsexual assault, surviving trauma, infertility and abusive relationships. Ifyou want to start out with something less intense, try “Maybe Someday.” Foryoung adult fans, the “Slammed” series, “Regretting You” and “Without Merit”are good choices.

How did Colleen Hoover’s novels become popular?

While Hoover has steadily had bestsellers since her debut on USA TODAY’s list,her popularity has exploded in the past two years. Her sales surge can beattributed in part to her massive popularity on TikTok, particularly in theplatform’s #booktok subculture. Publishers Weekly chronicled the phenomenonwhen Hoover’s 2016 book “It Ends With Us” started climbing the bestsellerslists in 2020.

Fifteen of Hoover’s novels are on this week’s list; “It Ends With Us” topsthem all at No. 2. The novel, which has reached No. 1 before, has been on thelist for a total of 76 weeks. Her latest novel, “Reminders of Him,” now on thelist, debuted at No. 1 in January.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Colleen Hoover: Who is she andwhy are her books so popular?

OM is investigating Baudet’s report about ‘liquidation comment’ by Johan Derksen show

no excusesThe Public Prosecution Service in The Hague is investigating whetherJohan Derksen has made a punishable statement with his liquidation remarkabout Thierry Baudet. The Public Prosecution Service is responding to a reportthat the foreman of Forum for Democracy leader has made of a threat. This isnot an in-depth investigation, but a short assessment, emphasizes aspokesperson.

According to the Public Prosecution Service, this is a standard procedure if athreat to a politician is reported. The Public Prosecution Service will theninform Baudet whether, in the opinion of the Public Prosecution Service, itmakes sense to file a complaint against Derksen.

Even if the Public Prosecution Service gives a negative advice, the Forum forDemocracy leader can still decide to file a complaint. The Public ProsecutionService cannot say how long the investigation into the report will take.

‘They have to liquidate it’

Derksen said in Wednesday evening Today Inside about the Forum for Democracyleader that ‘they need to liquidate that guy’. Presenter Wilfred Genee jokedimmediately after Derksen’s comment: “Can this still be cut out?”

The same evening, FvD suggested preparing a declaration on social media forthe much-discussed comment. That report has not yet been filed. A report hasbeen received at the Public Prosecution Service in The Hague. “We are nowgoing to take a closer look at that. We are going to see what exactly was saidand whether this is a criminal statement.” Derksen has not yet been contactedat this stage, the spokesperson says.

“If he’s that stupid…”

Derksen said immediately after the comment that it was a slip of the tongue.In his own words, he meant ‘that they should kick Baudet out of the Chamber’.Derksen is convinced that Baudet does not stand a chance if he decides toproceed with the report. His co-host Wilfred Genee showed how many differentmeanings the word liquidate can have.

“If he is stupid enough to file a complaint, a lawyer will come with the VanDale and say: well, just say it,” Derksen said. The football analyst calls it’staggering, the noise that arises. It seems as if half of the Netherlands iswaiting for someone to say something that you can put your finger on’.

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RTL Boulevard stated on Thursday that Wilfred Genee walked to his car at theMedia Park with two security guards because of threats. SBS6 does not want tocomment on this news on Thursday evening. “Due to security reasons, we cannotanswer questions related to security,” said a spokesperson.

SBS6 previously called Derksen’s comment a slip of the tongue. It was acomment that “he immediately recovered and to which he returned later in thebroadcast,” a spokesperson for the TV station said when asked.

Derksen is not going to apologize to Baudet. Opposite RTL Boulevard Derksenmaintains that it was a slip of the tongue and that therefore he sees noreason to say sorry. ,,I do not apologise, I have done nothing wrong”, saysDerksen. “People who have seen it, have seen that it was a slip of the tongueand that I immediately repaired it,” says Derksen. “It doesn’t affect me. Idon’t give a shit. They just file a report. Then I’ll get a lawyer and he’llhandle it.”

‘This is not possible’

Despite the fact that Derksen said it was a slip of the tongue, Baudet was nothappy. ,,Johan Derksen calls on live television for the liquidation (!) ofThierry Baudet, and presenter Wilfred Genee laughs happily. This cannot andshould not be without consequences,” the party wrote.

Broadcasters: something must be done quickly with ON, after ’embarrassing’ broadcast

However critical and indignant the broadcasters are about the broadcast offellow broadcaster ON on September 15, they do not agree with the statement ofthe director of KRO-NCRV, Peter Kuipers, in NRC that ON must be immediatelyremoved from the order. Instead, they are urging State Secretary Gunay Uslu(Media, D66), the NPO and the Media Authority to speak out quickly on theissue and take any necessary measures.

ON caused a wave of criticism last week by broadcasting the program Unheardof News alleged to address “racist aggression” by black people against whitepeople. A series of videos was shown in which a black man repeatedly beat up awhite man or woman. According to an investigation by Pointer (KRO-NCRV), thereis no evidence that there was a racist motive. The n-word was also usedseveral times in the ON broadcast.

Also read: Director KRO-NCRV wants Ongehoord Nederland immediately out ofthe system: “This is pure journalistic scum”

“This was pure racism,” says Jan Slagter, director of Omroep MAX. “ON hasdisqualified me. But do they have to be immediately removed from the order?That is not up to the directors of broadcasters, but up to the State Secretaryand the Media Authority. I’m finally expecting a decision. I honestly thoughtthat the group that feels unheard of in the Netherlands would get a voice inthe system with ON – and that’s the best way to push the boundaries. But theyhave crossed the border, this is not acceptable.”

EO director Arjan Lock, who is also chairman of the Board of Broadcasters (inwhich all national broadcasters have a seat), says that he senses indignationamong all broadcasters. “First: It cannot be the case that discriminatory orracist expressions are made under the flag of the NPO. And two: we wouldadhere to the journalistic code. If you broadcast five videos under the guiseof wanting to show black racism, and the first investigation shows that therewas no connection with racism, then you are breaking the code.

“Something has to happen. And I completely sympathize with what Kuipers says.But: diversity is also a great asset. And that requires careful action beforeyou use big words like: this broadcaster must be removed from the systemimmediately. Because it is not just about this one case, but also about othercases in the future. Do you want something completely different going on, andpeople say: that sound has to stop, which can also be said: directly from theorder?

The Media Authority is investigating the matter and has informed the ANP thatit expects to be ready in the second quarter of next year.

Also read: Rain of complaints after broadcasting ON. Can everything besaid?

Lennart van der Meulen, director of the VPRO, also believes that it is not upto the broadcasters to put ON on hold. “If other broadcasters were to say thatVPRO should be removed from the system because of a controversial documentary,I would also find that terrible. That is not so much a question ofcollegiality, but of freedom of expression. We think the racist expressions atON and the fomenting of prejudices are the worst. You can file a complaintagainst that, but that is not in the way of the VPRO.”

Van der Meulen points out that in addition to removing ON from the order,there is also a less far-reaching alternative. “The NPO can also say: we nolonger place this program on the broadcast schedule. That is always possible.”

No Black Pete news

Just this Friday, the NPO confirmed that another ON program, the alternative_Sinterklaas news_ with the title Black Pete Journal , will not be shown ontelevision this year. In the Black Pete Journal which was broadcast onYouTube last year, the Pieten are painted black, while the NPO has decidedtogether with NTR for a number of years. Sinterklaas news broadcast in whichno black Petes can be seen anymore.

“This can go two ways,” says NTR director Willemijn Francissen about therecent fuss about ON. “Unheard of Netherlands is out of the order. OrOngehoord Nederland will adhere to the agreements and remain within theframework. The latter is clearly my preference, but I find it difficult to behopeful about that.

Also read: NPO wants to impose sanction on Ongehoord Nederland afterOmbudsman report

“ON has been given a place in the system because it represents a group thatotherwise would not feel heard by the public broadcaster, while as animportant institution within democracy we are expected to let everyone havetheir say. But discrimination, racism, insults and hate speech are simply notallowed, especially not within public broadcasting. We are ashamed that this

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Derksen is not going to apologize to Baudet. Opposite RTL Boulevard Derksenmaintains that it was a slip of the tongue and that therefore he sees noreason to say sorry. ,,I do not apologise, I have done nothing wrong”, saysDerksen. “People who saw it, saw that it was a slip of the tongue and that Iimmediately repaired it,” says Derksen. “It doesn’t affect me. I don’t give ashit. They just file a report. Then I’ll get a lawyer and he’ll handle it.”

‘This is not possible’

From the diary of JJ Voskuil: the writer would rather be a farmer

Nowadays you fly the flag if you have managed to get a permanent jobsomewhere, but there has also been a different time, with other people. In anunforgettable scene from Dutch literature, ex-teacher Maarten Koning returnshome after a job interview at a scientific institute. His wife Nicolien turnsoff the vacuum cleaner and Maarten tells her that there is a good chance thathe will get the job in question. Nicolien reacts agitated and doesn’t likethat their lives will change like that. “I was so hoping you wouldn’t,” shesays. “I loved it so much together.” She calls the work ‘a compromise’ and hadhoped that Maarten would not be tempted. “I hoped we’d always stay togetherand die together.” ‘That is still possible,’ replies Maarten. Nicole: ‘No! Notif you’re at work all day! I hated it when you were a teacher!’ There may bequite a bit of pathos throughout the scene (Nicolien also sheds a tear), it isbeautiful and penetrating. Because of that unusual contradiction between loveand work, but also because it is so at odds with what just about everypolitical party or emancipatory movement will claim, namely that someone wouldby definition be wise to throw oneself fully into the labor market. That iswhere it can be found, that is where the realization takes place. It is alsovery strong that Nicolien and Maarten, as you will discover later, actuallyfind it a bit indecent to work. They are not the scum of the ledge, the scumof the ledge rolls up their sleeves.

Evaporated time

The above scene is, you probably already noticed it long and wide, from thebeginning of The desk , the 5000-page series by JJ Voskuil (1926-2008),about the troubled career of his alter ego Maarten Koning, published between1996 and 2000. Voskuil started writing to it after his retirement because henoticed that not only had his work been meaningless (as he had alwayssuspected), but also that the thirty years he had spent at the AmsterdamMeertens Institute in the Netherlands in no time at all. were evaporating; nosooner had he closed the door behind him than they had already forgotten himthere in the office. You’d The desk , which is written in a pure andmeasured, but extremely accurate Dutch, in that sense can be seen as a form ofrehabilitation, as a stylish revenge against the anonymization of the work: Imay not have really existed then, but here I am fully yes. Lousje, Voskuil’swife, was finally proud of her husband.

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After Voskuil’s death, a few more books by his hand were published. Striking(and spicy) was, for example Within the skin (2009), the novel that Voskuilhad already completed in the 1960s, but which was initially resolutelyrejected by his publisher Geert van Oorschot (‘A failure, annoying, nagging,lukewarm water on a filter with coffee already drawn off’).

But certainly in a quantitative sense, a work like Within the skin , inwhich Voskuil wrote about an existential crisis, revenge and adultery, just asmall harbinger of what was to come with the diaries. Voskuil considered ittoo painful to share it with the readers during his lifetime, and now hiswidow has given the green light. Voskuil kept a diary for a lifetime, and atotal of seven thick volumes will appear in the coming years – who knows theextent of The desk superlative.

At the start of almost a man , the first part just published, Voskuil is aboy of barely thirteen. Coincidentally or not, you soon read about activitiesthat seem to suit him a lot better than his future official work, namelyfarming. In the heart of the war, in 1943, he worked for a while on the landin Grolloo, Drenthe. He has to work (‘Saturday 7 August. Walked behind theharrow all day’), but he doesn’t complain, at least not on paper. And thememory of Voskuil who at the very end of his life said in an interview on TVthat he would rather have become a farmer immediately pops up in your head.

Good environment

Was not ‘someone like Voskuil’, someone with a good set of brains, coming froma good environment and with, for example, a father who was editor-in-chief ofa newspaper, more or less condemned to an existence as an intellectual, so aprisoner of his origin and his (or other people’s) expectations? Because thatintellectual ability, especially if he interferes in the Amsterdam studentlife, soon determines his identity and thus also his future. Enthusiastic (butjust as timid and capricious) he discusses with his friends, i.e. the peoplewho later became the cast of the On closer inspection (1963) would form.About writers, philosophers, about the meaning and nature of science and about– it was fashionable at that time for Du Perron and Ter Braak, among others,who died in the war – their ‘character’, that with which you relate to a worldin which you had to make the most difficult choices.

Had to make, because Voskuil is located in almost a man in the luxury of nothaving to choose, refuse, or be heroic at all. The diary covers a periodwhich, as with many young people, is mainly dominated by theory andorientation: you read, listen and watch, discuss this with others, are for oragainst the system or that war… and in the meantime you are faced with cornerof the working society to wait with angelic patience for the moment when youhave to participate.

Voskuil here blows up a balloon, filled with vain hope, before our very eyes.He almost exclusively writes down arguments against instead of for, measureshis friends but also himself psychologically very skillfully, saws at his ownchair legs, in fact reasoning himself incapacitated for the many years of workthat will take place after the award of the degree. follow. On the last pageshe has become a teacher in Groningen, something that is miles away from hispreviously noted ideal, namely that there is really nothing more decent thangetting drunk on your own.

damn dude

It is also remarkable how negatively he relates to the majority of literature.Hardly anyone is good (‘I can’t read Multatuli because I think he’s a rottenguy, right down to his punctuation’) and very seldom people really cheer.Literature to him was a grindstone, not a diamond to admire. But even Voskuil,a skeptic down to his punctuation marks, had to admit in the early 1950s that_The evenings_ is a fantastic book. He has to read it a few times to get thehang of it, but oh well. His strict attitude may have prevented him frombecoming a critic, for example, after his studies in Dutch language andliterature. Because also in a book like I am not me (2014), the posthumouslypublished collection of articles and critiques, Voskuil hardly takes anyone’sattention.

So he is almost a man here, but also almost a writer. Because he may be assharp as a knife, he clearly still has some big strides to make until he wasthe writer who a few years later On closer inspection could write, which canbe regarded as an undisputed masterpiece. Voskuil’s diary is, at least in thisearly period, something like a starter, a meccano box of which you cannot yetfully imagine what can be built with it. almost a man is usuallyentertaining, sometimes long-winded or impossible to follow and, especiallyfor Voskuilians, sometimes downright exciting, for example when you read thatthe writer already knew as a teenager where the boundaries of his ‘fiction’were. No, nothing not a highly fictional novel with fantastic figures andmythological references, not an ode to the imagination, but a novel ‘about aboy my age, his difficulties and problems’. Voskuil ‘could put everything init’. “As the idea matures, I’ll try to work it out, not to publish it, but formyself, because that seems like a great satisfaction to me.” Or if you readabout his declaration of love to ‘the anecdote’, in other words the insertionof purely descriptive text parts in a novel or story. It could be the key towhat we consider to be the most underrated parts of On closer inspection or_The desk_ to consider, namely the parts in which the frictions betweenfriends or colleagues do not predominate, but nature, walks and travels. As areader, you can do whatever you want with those parts, and you can interpretthem the way you want. Something like this may sound like a simple writinggrip (just as his friends react skeptically to something as accessible as theanecdote), but it is actually very difficult to do well. And besides, they area more than welcome change from the oxygen-poor Voskuilian scheming indoors,whether that was in the lecture hall, the pub, one’s own home or in theoffice. As a big cycling skeptic, I can remember descriptions of cycling tripsthrough the polder that made me think: I should go and have a look there. Andnot because of the lyricism. Shouldn’t those neutral passages be used to whatVoskuil so badly missed in the rest of (described) life: a total lack ofthreat, of direction?

There is, of course, an ironic limitation to a Voskuil diary, especially whenit is as extensive as this one. Because while the diary of another writermight shed new light on his respected oeuvre (oh, did he graft that characteronto that person, etc.), with a diary like this you (often) only have thecarcass of the novels in hand. Because Voskuil worked very autobiographicallyand promoted diaries (and for The desk also reports of Meertens meetings) tovery dramatic novels for the good listener. Who knows, the real answer can beread in a next part of the diary, but for the time being it seems that Voskuilfirst has to suffer, actually had to be weighed down in practice by the burdenof routine work, the bankruptcy of friendship or the desire for someone else’swife to pupate from a writer who didn’t want to be published to one who did.The already foreseen hell had become reality.

Also read: I have life at its wits ‘ end; Conversation with JJ Voskuil

With this provider you get an internet subscription with Netflix for 19 euros per month | My guide

mining coDo you like to watch linear TV and Netflix? With various providersyou can also activate a Netflix subscription with your televisionsubscription. Is that cheaper than paying for both services separately? Whichprovider are you best off with? And are there any cheaper alternatives?Mijntelco.be will find out.

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A basic Netflix subscription costs 8.99 euros per month. Combining such asubscription with an internet subscription is perfectly possible. The totalpackage is often cheaper. Below we list the options offered by providersOrange, Proximus and Telenet. To calculate the sum of the providersubscription and the streaming subscription, we assume bundles with internetand TV with decoder.

Also read: These are the cheapest subscriptions for internet and TV

Orange TV decoder including Netflix: 41.99 euros per month

Orange offers a Love Pack with fast internet (download speed 150 Mbps) andOrange TV for 59 euros per month. The 59 euro one-time start-up costs are notincluded in this. If you take GoPlus in the same formula, the subscriptioncosts less: 33 euros. With GoPlus you can text and call unlimited, and you get11 GB of data per month. With GoPlus, the start-up costs are also free. Thatmeans that you pay 26 euros less subscription and no 59 euros start-up costs.That formula with, for example, Netflix basic (8.99 euros) added, will costyou 41.99 euros per month.

Proximus TV decoder including Netflix: 58.98 euros per month

If we opt for a bundle with Internet and TV with a decoder at Proximus, theprovider proposes Flex as the cheapest solution. The first three months youpay 49.99 euros monthly, then 63.99 euros every month. With this formula youcan surf unlimited with a download speed of 100 Mbps, you have a TV with adecoder and you get My ePress. My ePress gives you unlimited access to HetLaatste Nieuws Digitaal or Le Soir. Because that offer is a promotion, you donot have to pay the 59 euro installation costs. If you take out a subscriptionto Netflix basic, you pay 58.98 euros for the first month.

Telenet TV decoder including Netflix: 53.99 euros per month

At Telenet, the Easy Internet bundle with Telenet TV Iconic is currently thecheapest formula for combining internet with TV with decoder. The price tag:the first three months 45 euros and the following months 60.85 euros permonth. The package offers a download volume of 150 GB with a maximum downloadspeed of 100 Mbps and digital TV. You get Play Sports Open and Streamz forfree for 14 days. The activation of 50 euros is free in that promotion. If youadd a Netflix basic subscription, it will cost you 53.99 euros for the firstmonth.

Cheaper alternative: streaming online

If you don’t want a TV with a decoder, but you do want to watch movies, seriesor documentaries from the streaming services, that’s also possible, read herehow you can replace your decoder with an app.

In order to stream online, it is necessary that you have more than sufficientor unlimited surfing volume and that your download speed is sufficiently high,especially if you stream a lot or if several family members each stream theirfavorite movie or series at the same time.

Orange online streaming including Netflix: 18.99 euros per month

Love Duo with GO Light from Orange is currently the cheapest formula to streamonline. Due to a promotion, you pay a subscription fee of 10 euros for thefirst six months, then 46 euros monthly. There are no activation costs. Youenjoy unlimited internet at a download speed of 100 Mbps. In addition, youalso get 150 calling minutes, unlimited text messages and 2 GB data per SIMcard. With the Netflix basic subscription, it will cost you 18.99 euros forthe first month.

Billions in tax cuts and investment to help UK economy

The plans cost the Truss administration billions in both expenditure and lostrevenue: £45 billion from the tax cuts, for example, and £60 billion for aprice cap on energy costs. But the new prime minister is convinced that themoney can be earned back if the economy picks up.

Economic recovery was the most important file waiting for Truss when shesucceeded fellow party member Johnson at the beginning of this month. Costs ofliving and energy have soared, inflation shoots past 10 percent. In varioussectors, the British expressed their dissatisfaction through strikes.

Trickle-down Economy

With some delay due to the mourning period for Queen Elizabeth, the cabinetnow announces what it wants to do. It is striking that the choice has beenmade to help higher income groups in particular: the highest tax bracket of 45percent for incomes above 150,000 pounds will disappear, a bonus ceiling forbankers will be scrapped and the rich in particular will have more money leftover now that an increase in social charges is not going ahead. This groupbenefits even the most from the stop on energy costs.

Truss is fully committed to this trickle-down economy, the idea that if therich have more money, everyone benefits through their spending. For example,the cabinet argues that by removing the transfer tax for homes under £250,000,homeowners will spend more on a coat of paint or a new kitchen.

“There are too many obstacles for companies,” said Minister Kwarteng at thepresentation of his ‘mini-budget’ in the House of Commons. “We need a newapproach, focused on growth.”

UK correspondent Arjen van der Horst:

“Truss’ predecessor Boris Johnson was difficult to pigeonhole economically. Hewas in favor of tax cuts and deregulation, but also increased spending andleveling out by putting more money into the impoverished central and north ofEngland ( leveling up ).

At Truss, the economic course is crystal clear: these are all measures thatmainly benefit the very rich. But Truss has indicated that she has no problemwith that. Truss believes that her predecessors focused too much on wealthdistribution; she would rather grow the economy as a whole.”

Labor is disgraceful that the money mainly flows to the rich in society. Thattheir money would seep through to the rest of society, economy spokesmanReeves called an outdated idea. “The Prime Minister and Treasury Secretary aretwo desperate gamblers who continue to play a losing hand.”

Remarkably, there was also criticism from Truss’s own party that thegovernment has not calculated the plans to see what the effect will be on theeconomy. According to Truss, there was no time for that, but MP Mel Stride,chairman of the Treasury Committee, believes that in times of mistrust thereshould be more openness.

“If markets are nervous about government bonds and our currency is underpressure, it’s time for more transparency. It must be made clear that the taxcuts or other measures are fiscally justified.”

UK correspondent Arjen van der Horst:

“Prime Minister Truss has often portrayed herself as the next Thatcher, evenin the way she dressed. One aspect of her policies is not so Thatcherian: hermeasures create a huge hole in the budget in times of high inflation. Thatcherwas a fiscal conservative who prioritized lowering inflation and reducing thebudget deficit before cutting taxes.”

Critics warn that the bill for this package could fall on future generations.It is still unclear exactly how high this will be: Kwarteng gave few detailsabout how the cabinet wants to finance everything.

“Never before has a government borrowed so much and explained so little,”Reeves said of the plans. “What does the minister have to hide?”

The financial markets also reacted hesitantly. The British pound fell furtheragainst the dollar, to its lowest point in 37 years. The value of short-termgovernment bonds is “sinking like a brick,” Reuters news agency reported, withprobably the largest single-day loss in value since 2009.

Our son is going to be very important

Laurent Simons. Photo: Videoland

You’d only have one, a child prodigy like Laurent Simons. Your family is quiteupside down. That becomes clear when you watch the documentary Laurent, thechild prodigy on Videoland. It can be seen from today.

He is 12 years old, that Flemish-Dutch gifted boy with an IQ of 145+. Incomparison, the IQ of the historical scientist Albert Einstein is estimated at160. But whether that was also true when the born German was 12… Anyway,Laurent is blessed with an incredible brain. Brain that allowed him tocomplete groups 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in eighteen months at primary school.

Subway watched the documentary Laurent, the child prodigy in advance Lookat the Tube. In this column Erik Jonk discusses new and striking TV programsfrom the regular broadcasters and streaming services.

Laurent quickly to gymnasium and university

At the age of six, the eloquent Laurent Simons started grammar school. An agewhen you and I just started writing ‘tree, rose and fish’. Laurent didn’t, healso raced through his secondary school days and had his master’s degree inphysics at the University of Antwerp two months ago.

Years ago, father Alexander and mother Lydia Simons did not realize that theirchild was special. They ran three thriving dental practices, which is whyLaurent grew up with his grandfather and grandmother. The grandparents saw:our grandchild has certain gifts. The dental practices have since been sold,giving Alexander and Lydia time to mentor Laurent – who lives with themagain – and ‘manage his career’. Videoland was allowed to come and take anexclusive look at the family. That exclusive is not too bad, because numerousmedia were already let in by the Simons family. Anyway, for this documentarythere was no other camera available.

Parents pronounced on Videoland

Said parents do not mince words in the Videoland documentary about their son.”What Laurent has done so far is unprecedented, that has never happenedbefore,” says mother Lydia. And father Alexander, who by the way looks a lotlike the smart boy: “I think he will become very important for humanity.” Ajournalist from the Belgian The last news remembers a first phone call fromDad. “He phoned very excitedly that he wanted to tell us about his 6-year-oldson. I met two very proud parents.”

Laurent child prodigy documentaryVideoland Alexander,Laurent and Lydia Simons. Photo: Videoland

That might also be what rubs in a bit Laurent, the child prodigy. ‘Leavethat child’, you quickly remember. However, there have already been plenty ofpeople who have expressed their opinion of the family – without ever meetingthem – on social media. But more importantly: when it comes to studying,Laurent wants it, especially himself. If he has to exercise for the necessarymovement, he needs a push (and he doesn’t have the ball feeling, for example).To get up early? Not for him. Ten or eleven in the morning, he thinks that’sfine. Studying for three to four hours is also enough.

Giftedness in the Netherlands

More than 400,000 people live in the Netherlands with some form of giftedness.However, there are big differences, according to experts. There are many moregifted people who can achieve something than gifted people who actually do it.In the case of giftedness, science assumes an IQ of 130+.

Laurent doesn’t know why he is a child prodigy

We see in the documentary that Laurent is giving a master’s speech at Tel AvivUniversity. Despite his age, he is already getting offers from companies fromall over the world, as he is now known. Just a reminder, he is 12 years old.Laurent finds the term gifted, after he must have heard it thousands of times,but nothing. “I especially think I am unique, I am just myself.” And: “I don’tknow why I’m so smart. But I find it flattering to be associated with nameslike Einstein.”

Laurent child prodigyVideoland LaurentSimons. Photo: Robin Utrecht

It’s best within the family. A child that is smarter than the parents, muchsmarter, that is an unusual situation. He may take all the opportunities heneeds, but must not lose sight of the fact that there are other things aswell. For example, horseback riding, gaming and playing with grandpa, grandma,nephews and nieces.

What will the child prodigy do next?

Completing that physics degree at the age of 12 sounds wonderful. But whatwill Laurent actually do with it? Brace yourself: he wants to achieveimmortality. And if that doesn’t work, at least extend human lives. Beautiful:“That children no longer have to miss their grandfathers and grandmothers.”Did I mention this boy is 12 years old?

The documentary is not necessarily special, because this striking scientisthas been in the picture was standing. But it is all very interesting.

Laurent, the child prodigy can be seen on Videoland from today.

Number of cans out of 5: 3.5.

The future repeats itself in the Evoluon

The greatest crisis of the moment is: thinking that this time is a crisistime. Those who are seriously ready for lighter thoughts can go to Eindhoven,because the Evoluon will open again to the public – for the past more thanthirty years there have only been closed conferences.

An exhibition with an uplifting message marks the reopening. Title:RetroFuture. About: ‘The history of the future.’

But first, just go back to the past. The Evoluon has been an iconic buildingsince 1966. It stands like an immense UFO in the west of Eindhoven. It was agift to the Philips City of Light in honor of the company’s 75th anniversary.It would show how technology can make life ever lighter and more beautiful.

At the same time, Philips also turned the Evoluon into a showroom. In keepingwith the zeitgeist of the time, the company displayed a bright future full oftechnological progress here. Astronauts made one space trip after another;millions of people were glued to the television that had penetrated almostevery living room.

The Evoluon received millions of visitors who could already play with newtechnological discoveries for the home. Until Philips sank into a crisis inthe course of the 1980s; the Evoluon closed its doors to the general public in1989.

The new Evoluon, which will receive the public again from next Sunday, willcontinue where the previous one left off. “It is our duty to be optimisticabout the future,” says artist and philosopher Koert van Mensvoort, thedriving force behind the resurrection.

To be seen in RetroFuture (bottom right of the photo): the car annex timemachine from the film Back to the Future. Photo Jip Barth

The somewhat naive belief in progress from the sixties is now out of thequestion. In the exhibitions, the Evoluon wants to tell stories that aretimeless, that provoke thought.

Pessimism is paralyzing

To feed discussions, optimist Van Mensvoort gives some examples of pessimismthat later turned out to be unfounded: „Aristotle wrote 2,300 years ago: ‘Thecities are becoming too big, and therefore unmanageable.’ Church FatherTertullian already warned in the third century AD about the danger ofovercrowding. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich warned of mass starvation deaths, in hisbook The Population Bomb. What do we see now? Globally, overweight mortalityhas increased enormously and hunger has decreased.”

To which Van Mensvoort also adds a disclaimer: “Of course humanity hasenormous problems to overcome: climate change, pandemics, food shortages inparts of the world, wars. The point is: pessimism paralyzes and breeds fear.This undermines the development of new knowledge and creativity.”

The opening exhibition is therefore one with a mission, according to theaccompanying texts: ‘to make visitors future-proof’, because if the past showsone pattern, then this: ‘The future is constantly repeating itself.’ And aboveall: ‘It wasn’t better before!’

Simple, unambiguous stories are in RetroFuture not told. None: look howLeonardo da Vinci designed airplanes over 500 years ago! Da Vinci is notmissing in the new Evoluon, but it is placed in the context of many successesand failures in the history of aviation.

A few days before the opening, the exhibition is still under construction.Curator Mieke Gerritzen gives a tour. “This building is overwhelming,” shesays on the ground floor, in the middle of a circular structure, capped by animmense dome.

How do you show stories that are timeless in this futuristic building? Aboutfear of the future. About wild predictions, which more often than not havecome true. About crazy finds, which, in retrospect, turned out not to be socrazy.

Gerritzen: „The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick gave me theidea to build several tunnels under the dome of the Evoluon. They provideseparate worlds, different perspectives within the immense space of thebuilding as a whole.”

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1968 advertisement for cleaning agent Lestoil: ‘Women of the future will makethe moon a cleaner place to live.’

Illustration from 1930: ‘Beeldbeelden’, in an album full of futuristicexpectations, published by the German margarine manufacturer Echte Wagner.

Kubrick’s tunnel is a classic scene from cinema history: astronaut Dave Bowman(played by Keir Dullea) travels through time, surrounded by hallucinatory raysthat travel faster than light. In her tunnels Gerritzen shows ‘eternal dreams’and ‘timeless challenges’.

For thousands of years, scientists and artists have allowed their imaginationsto express what Gerritzen has incorporated into the names of the tunnels. Theywant to ‘fly like a bird’, ‘never work again’, ‘establish a paradise onearth’, ‘know everything’, ‘live forever’.

The tunnel over the flying person is designed as a passenger plane, includinga screen in each seat. An entertaining selection of film fragments is shown,in which people move through the air like birds and/or rockets.

The mix of visual styles is especially fascinating: from clumsy cutting andpasting from films from a century ago to recent high-tech animations. In themeantime, if you look out of the small windows from your airplane seat, youwill see a colorful collection of flying objects flash past, including witcheson broomsticks.

Devil’s pact

The exhibition not only shows future images from the past, in photography,painting, design and film fragments, ten artists also show new work.

Ancient is the dream of knowledge that makes supreme. See the classic Fausttheme: a diabolical pact, a deadly attempt to know more than God. But new isthe depiction of this, by the American artist Michael Mandiberg, who hasprinted large parts of the English Wikipedia and compiled it in 7,471 books.

The Dutch artist Rob Schröder made a haunted house with historical film imagesof disasters on one wall and opposite life-size portraits of a powerfulcompany. Among them: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Marine Le Pen and Kim Jong-un.Anyone looking at the images automatically joins dark circles.

This narrative exhibition is more than just looking and reading. Conflictingviews constantly provoke surprise and discussion. It is also a realexperience, especially on the highest ring under the dome of the Evoluon,which has been set up as a funfair. With laser tag, where you try to touchorgans in the body of a pig. Or in a time machine that lets visitors floatthrough the air, looking through VR glasses, and letting them get away fromspace and time.

For the time being, the exhibition is intended for six months. And then? Overthe next ten years, the Evoluon will serve as a breeding ground for NextNature center for research and events in the triangle of nature, technologyand design, headed by Koert van Mensvoort.

“The first two or three years we present starters,” he says. “The main coursewill follow in 2025. Then we will go on a journey with Spaceship Earth. Afterall, the big question at the moment is: how do we take our planet one stepfurther in a fascinating journey of discovery? Keeping in mind the wonderfulquote from Canadian philosopher and researcher Marshall McLuhan: There are nopassengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ‘ ”

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A guest in the monastery

TESTIMONY • Actor Thomas Cammaert, known for The Passion, Ramses and Wieis de Mol, is a guest of the Premonstratensians in the Abbey of Berne inHeeswijk Dinther for three days. It is the oldest surviving monastic order inthe Netherlands. The Flemish Thomas grew up in a Catholic family. When hediscovered that he liked men, he no longer felt welcome in the church. Howdoes he settle in monastic life in Brabant? In the garden of the abbey heenters into a conversation with Abbot Denis Hendrickx and asks whether thebrothers in his abbey can be openly gay.

• Cloister guests, Saturday 24 September 2022, 4.03pm-4.30pm, NPO2

‘Remaining women’

DOCU • Many women in China are also ambitious. They study and have a greatcareer. But if they are still unmarried at 27, they no longer count.Filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia follow three successful Chinese womenin Beijing: 34-year-old lawyer Qiu Hua Mei, 28-year-old radio host Xu Min and36-year-old assistant professor Gai Qi in Beijing. Despite their successfulcareers, these women are seen as ‘sheng nu’, a derogatory term for ‘leftover’women.

• 2Doc: Leftover women, Saturday September 24, 2022, 11:54 pm-1:18 am,NPO2

People with disabilities’

CONVERSATION • What does it mean to have a disability and what does thatsay about our humanity? Writer and researcher Jacqueline Kool deals with thesequestions. The outside world often has prejudices about people withdisabilities: they would have a difficult life, there is a lot that is notpossible. Jacqueline Kool takes a stand against these prejudices. She choosesto say yes to her life in an electric wheelchair, and everything that comeswith it. Of course it is sometimes difficult, but isn’t that true foreveryone? And what do we really know about the other?

• The wonder, Sunday 25 September 2022, 8.32 am-9.02 am, NPO2

Inside the head of Caroline Pauwels

DOCU • The four seasons of Caroline Pauwels provides an insight into therich and full life of the late Caroline Pauwels during an eventful year inwhich she had to resign as rector of the VUB due to her illness, but in whichshe was also guest curator of Theater aan Zee. We follow her at random, butalso at selected moments throughout the summer, autumn, winter and spring ofthe year 2021-2022. We get to know her view of the world and see how itevolves through the seasons. How do the different atmospheres and moods enterher life? And how does she deal with the daily reality she is confronted with?Caroline Pauwels’ four seasons is an intimate portrait of an unusuallyfascinating and inspiring personality.

• The four seasons of Caroline Pauwels, Monday September 26, 2022, 9.20 pm -10.20 pm, Canvas

The woman who wanted to be a billionaire

DOCU • In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of college to start Theranos,a company that would revolutionize healthcare. Holmes was dubbed the new SteveJobs, but just two years later, she fell off her pedestal. This documentarytells the story of the rise and fall of the woman who thought she would becomethe youngest female billionaire in the world.

• The inventor: out for blood in Silicon Valley, Wednesday September 28,2022, 10.50 pm-0.45 am, Canvas