Putten

The town of Landgraaf, in the southern Dutch province of Limburg, is being widely searched in the Netherlands. Elsewhere in Dutch news, an online Staatslot bought in Putten has made a resident a millionaire overnight, worth one million euros. No specific event in Landgraaf has been confirmed, so the reason for the attention is not yet clear.

An essay by Florence Hazrat explores how the parenthesis, a punctuation mark Erasmus called 'little moons' and George Puttenham praised as a 'figure of tolerable disorder', was embraced by Elizabethan writer Philip Sidney. The piece, published via Project Gutenberg, examines how Sidney used parentheses not as a minor device but as an essential tool of his prose and poetry, despite Renaissance warnings that they be used sparingly and not 'too thick'.