Articles

A selection of Hans Koning articles

(until 1972 writing under the name Hans Koningsberger)

• The International Herald Tribune

  • Meanwhile: I must go down to the sea again... - Sept. 2003

  • The Vanishing Mystery of a Sea Crossing - Jan. 2003

  • What's In Your Phone? : It's 1996, Do You Know - Jan. 1996

  • Major Landscape Change Is Possible Without Notice - Jun. 1995

  • Out of Black Shoelaces and Doing Fine - May. 1995

  • The Tugboat on the Lawn: A Tale of Man and Nature - Oct. 1994

  • Why Can't We Go Again In Real Ships of the Sea? - Jun. 1994

  • Between Valley and Sky, Halfway Up a Swiss Wall - May. 1993

  • Crossing Borders, Opening Doors - Mar. 1993

  • After a Movie, Still Waiting For the Twentieth Century - Sep. 1992

  • Would They Even Miss the View? - Jun. 1992

  • Provide Essential Services, Then Leave Us in Peace - Aug. 1991

The New York Times

• • Amsterdam and the Sea Conspire to Build a Neighborhood - Oct. 2002

  • Summoning the Mystery and Tragedy, but in a Subterranean Way - Jul. 2000

  • Don't Celebrate 1492 - Mourn It - Aug. 1990

  • Why Hollywood Breeds Self-indulgence - Jan. 1981

  • Free To Go To The Devil - Jul. 1981

  • Shipping Darwin's Ideas To the Home Screen - Jan. 1980

  • Films and Plays About Vietnam Treat Everything but the War - May. 1979

  • Gezellig Amsterdam: 'Cozy and Convivial' - Mar. 1978

  • There Exists in The 20th Century A 19th-Century Dictatorship, And Its Name Is Paraguay - Jan. 1974

  • On Solzhenitsyns in Reverse - Jun. 1974

  • That Rarest of Birds, a Successful Political Movie - Jun. 1974

  • Travel Is Destroying a Major Reason for Travelling - Nov. 1974

  • The Enemy Factor' In New York and 'Civilized' London - Dec. 1973

  • The Semantics Of War - Feb. 1972

  • One Fourth of Mankind; One Fourth of Mankind - May. 1967

  • Deux Simenons - May. 1966

  • 'Pourboire' or 'Trinkgelt' or 'Mancia' - Apr. 1960

  • Letters That Say, 'I Love You'; The heart speaks eloquently in these letters collected in honor of St. Valentine's Day - Feb. 1959

  • The Sparkling Legacy Of Dom Perignon - Nov. 1958

  • More and More the Cry of 'Track!'; The Cry of 'Track!' - Jan. 1958

  • A Beachologist's Ten Best List; One man's sand-and-sunspots stretch from Skyros to Saint John via Acapulco - Jul. 1957

  • A Vote on Europe; Students Polled on Various Countries After Making First Trip Abroad First Survey Other Categories - Oct. 1956

The New Yorker

• • Naval Aviation - 1998

  • Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Eleventh Edition - 1981

  • China Notes - 1967

  • Letter from Havana - 1962

  • Letter from Mexico City - 1960

The Atlantic Monthly

• • Notes on the Twentieth Century - Sept. 1997

  • Germania Irredenta - July. 1996

  • On France's Blessed South Coast - Dec. 1996

  • A French Mirror - Dec. 1995

  • Notes on the Mirror With a Memory - Jul. 1990

Harpers Magazine

• • A life colored by war: Amsterdam, May 1940 - May. 1990

  • Ifs: Destiny and the archduke's chauffeur - May. 1988

  • Memories official and unofficial - Oct. 1988

  • Where money has little currency. Travels in East Germany - Nov. 1987

  • Poland's new �far west� - Jul. 1965

The Nation

• • Still Not Over Over There? - Aug. 1999

  • At Home Abroad - Feb. 1986

  • False Solidarity - Jan. 1982

  • On Terrorism - Feb. 1980

  • Vision of Hell - Oct. 1980

  • Direct Line - Nov. 1980

  • Argentina Joins the Third World - Jul. 1973

Other Publications

• • Spike Helmets for the Youths of America - Jun. 2005 - CommonDreams.org

  • The Iron Age - Fall 1989 - The Antioch Review

  • Two Visits to Spain - Spring 1972 - The Antioch Review

  • A Concert in Gdansk - Spring 1972 - The Antioch Review