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Ten Issues in — and Europe keeps thinking
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With Issue Ten, our golden Jubilee, we celebrate ten editions of independent, multilingual writing that crosses languages, borders and expectations. At a time when culture is flattened into opinion and noise, the European Review of Books is a space for reflection — a space inhabited by writers, editors and readers who believe Europe deserves better critique and…
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Letter to the editor
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Issue Nine features the essay After Midnight, by Alexander Etkind and Johanna Gautier-Morin. Here’s a reaction to that essay, by Frances Butler, who has recently completed her PhD in Geography at UCL (University College, London) and is currently writing a book about climate responsibility and justice.
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EventsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Join us to launch ERB Issue Three, at events in Berlin and Amsterdam
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Bad writing adviceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Writing advice is everywhere. Some of it might even be good! But we were interested in the bad.
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We’ve built it; now come live in it.
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Found in translationThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Or, the art of the error
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Kill your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.
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Europas & bulls
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A logo might start as a designer’s whim. Only then does one look for meanings to fill it with. On Europas: mythic, artistic, fictional, political, psychological, satirical, and finally unfinished.
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Welcome to the ERBThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A greeting from the editors. We hope you like what we’ve made.
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The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness
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« Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more mystical, too: these drawings represent « the conviction that simple tools can grant us the power to face the god of paper. »
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The ordinary jacket of today
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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.