The Prince Claus Fund Reader presents a thematic selection of the extensive publishing practices of the Fund. This selection includes the Prince Claus Fund Journal, the Prince Claus Awards Books, the books published under the Prince Claus Fund Library imprint, and cultural magazines supported by the Fund. The Reader offers a fresh view into the history of the Fund. In making unexpected connections, even articles from the earliest days find relevance.

Prince Claus Fund Reader #1: visibility and ways of seeing

The articles collected in the first edition of the Prince Claus Fund Reader treat politically sensitive subjects like the commemoration of slavery, the restoration of damaged sites, the preservation of precarious knowledge, documentary photography, artistic representation and documentation, and the revelation of oppressed knowledge. It includes articles by and about Kaveh Golestan, Achille Mbembe, Adriaan van Dis, Yvonne Vera, Wang Shixiang and Parisa Damandan, amongst others.

Prince Claus Fund Reader #2: action

The second edition of the Prince Claus Fund Reader concentrates on the notion of action. It features the ways in which poets, activists, scholars and journalists use their words to make change happen. What strategies can one apply in acting? How does one convert words into deeds? This second edition of the Reader treats different ways of dealing with the wish to act and its unavoidable political connotations. The Prince Claus Fund Reader appears every three months and is designed by Irma Boom.

This second edition of the Prince Claus Fund Reader includes articles about the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, about blogging and censorship in Cuba, about the battle against communalism in India, and about the political responsibilities of writers in Angola. Salah Hassan writes on the crisis of governance in Darfur, whilst Zhang Hong contributes with an article about bodily resistance in China.

Prince Claus Fund Reader #3: understanding and identity

The third edition of the Prince Claus Fund Reader offers a series of articles and publications that focus on understanding and identity. It discusses the ways in which identities construct processes of understanding. All authors that are included in this reader focus on existent prejudices, shifting meanings and empowering contexts. In doing this, they try to expose the power that (manipulated) meaning can have on the way in which a person understands. This third Prince Claus Fund Reader features articles by Els van der Plas, Saima Zaidi, Talat Tekin, Carlos Fuentes, Kwasi Wiredu, Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Rex Nettleford.

Prince Claus Fund Reader #4: Habit and Tradition

The fourth Prince Claus Fund Reader includes articles by Paulin J. Hountondji, Simon Lee, Sami Zubaida, Zulfu Livaneli, Joseph Kwabena Nketia, Francoise Pommaret and Aminata Dramane Traore. The fourth edition of the Prince Claus Fund Reader presents a series of articles that discuss habits and traditions.  Starting with Prince Claus's famous declaration of the tie, the articles collected in this reader seek to redefine habit and tradition by conceiving them as dynamic and alterable notions.