Treasury
Welcome to our digital Treasury. Here we publish some of the best essays from our Dutch journal Nexus in English, reviews of recent books and videos of our events.
The American Stake in Europe
IV. Second concert & closing debate
III. First concert, Scruton & debate
II. Buruma, Richardson, Mitchell & Clair
I. Steiner, Bhabha & Doorman
An Age of Bad Faith
The Shabby and the Sublime
IV. Debate and closing concert
III. Safranski
II. Dieckmann
I. Riemen, Riezenkamp, Williams and Wagner
Zur Kultur der europäischen Vereinigung
Nutzen und Nachteil der Literatur
Final lecture by Peter Sellars
Nexus Conference 1996, debate I, II and III
Keynote lecture by Michael Ignatieff
In memoriam Béla Tarr (1955-2026)
On the 6th of January 2026, the legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr passed away at the age of seventy. Béla Tarr is recognized worldwide as one of the most influential and important filmmakers of the past decades. In his slow, dark black-and-white films he thematized, in his own words, 'the unbearable weight of existence.'