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Europe Special 20244
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This extra edition is adorned with the Europe-maps that were created for the ERB by the architect Rem Koolhaas and our designer, Patrick Doan. We’ve included the ERB’s best writing on Europe. With Europas and bulls, the EU going to church, Liythuania: the thirty times loser of the Eurovision Song Contest, the puzzle of who’ll…
Issue Eight
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Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague, and much more to get lost in.
Issue Five
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Issue Five has questions: How best to lose Eurovision? What is Russia-themed erotica about? And it has destinations, often anguished ones: refugees and guards on the Polish border, Russians in Istanbul, Europe’s noisiest island, early Zionist disillusionment in Palestine, a return to Phnom Penh. Javier Milei literarily considered, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend, Walter Benjamin’s…
Issue Four
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Issue Four of the ERB is blue – sky blue – and within its covers are some first-rate forays and unlikely excavations. Ali Smith on Virginia Woolf. George Blaustein on Schwarzeneggerology. The most important unreviewed books of our times (all four volumes of Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China), reviewed. You also won’t want to miss…
Issue Seven
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Filled to the brim with delights: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, reviews of novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, Yiddish gangster novels, anti-apartheid country music, hard-boiled Bulgarian horsemen and much, much more.
Issue Six
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Issue Six is luxuriously lilac on the outside, and its contents are equally lush. Fiction by Adania Shibli, Théo Casciani and Agnes Lidbeck. The EU’s new AI Act, reviewed. An exploration of the past, present and future of photography, a pilgrimage to Persepolis & a lament for German carpets. A new appreciation of Jane Austen’s…
Issue Three
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Issue Three of the ERB arrives in fuchsia and brims with new writing from Europe and beyond. Rem Koolhaas on Mies van der Rohe, Sarah Watling on Edda Mussolini, Fernanda Eberstadt on the crime-solving programmers & botanists of Forensic Architecture. Death in philosophy & biology, and a lively tragic optimism for a doomed planet. Ukrainian…
Issue Two
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The 208 pages of ERB Issue Two are bursting with essays, reviews, reportage, interview, photography and experiment by writers from all over Europe — and beyond. It is a reading experience unto itself, designed like nothing else. TURN the pages to read, but CUT the pages — easily done with a finger — to open…