the editors
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Ten Issues in — and Europe keeps thinking
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With Issue 10, our golden Jubilee, we celebrate ten editions of independent, multilingual writing that have crossed languages, borders, and expectations. In a time when culture is flattened into opinion and noise, The European Review of Books keeps a space for reflection alive — made by writers, editors, and readers who believe Europe deserves better critique, the…
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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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Bad writing advice
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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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The European Review of Books is 1 year old! Help secure its future.
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We’ve built it; now come live in it.
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Kill your darlings
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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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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.
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On the anti-poetry of « crowdfunding campaign »
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Kickstarting used to be something you did to an engine. To « kickstart » the European Review of Books makes it feel like we’re riding a motorcycle in World War I. But we only want peace!