Launch party: European Review of Books, Issue FIVE
24 April 2024
Where & when:
murmur (Amsterdam Noord)
Aambeeldstraat 60
1021 KB Amsterdam
Doors open at 19:00
Talking starts at 19:45
Free admission, purchasable drinks (ERBs, too!)
RSVP to info@europeanreviewofbooks.com
(not mandatory but handy for a headcount)
What & who:
Rapid-fire readings from the ERB’s first five issues. Justina Buskaitė on losing Eurovision, Clare Azzopardi on Maltese noise, Michael Erard on hyperpolyglottism, Fernanda Eberstadt on stories of the body militant, George Blaustein on Schwarzenegger-ology, Sander Pleij on Van-Gogh-ology, Kate Elizabeth Creasey on political limbo, Uğur Ümit Üngör on perpetration, Mia You on translation & perversion, Yu Müller’s palindrome poetry, Stephan Petermann on Xi Jinping’s big beige books, Sudeep Dasgupta on longing in Palestine, Ingo Venzke on tragic optimism & climate pessimism, Patrick Doan’s pilgrimage to Phnom Penh, and more.
Who, what, and why? Imagine something called, say, the Zemblan Review of Books, or the Esperanto Review of Political Theory, or the Klingon Review of Horticulture, or the Utopian Review of Bicycles.
We’ve built it; now come live in it.
The ERB doesn’t stand in competition with magazines we love; it joins them, and does so in admiration. This project has made us encounter literary magazines we hadn’t read before and discover beautiful magazines in languages we wish we could read.