Issues

Issue Ten DECEMBER 2025 Black on white, with a glint of copper. And inside: the Mediterranean as a sea between; dreams, and their political life; headaches — human, divine, and artificial. A woman steps in Tangiers; looted libraries whisper their afterlives; strangers write to strangers. What Sweden isn’t; Yugoslav tales of literary theft ascending; an angel…

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Issue Nine SEPTEMBER 2025 Blue, this time with a layer of aquamarine. Zaporizhzhia’s nuclear plant, rails that still run through Ukraine’s war, and a Ukrainian great-grandmother turned icon of pro-Russian cosplay. Plants in Bulgaria repackaged for Western wellness and Bolívar’s tongue stretched across continents. Untranslatable names, Joséphine Baker on Palestine’s seafront, and wicked fables for…

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Issue Eight APRIL 2025 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.

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Issue Seven DECEMBER 2024 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.

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Issue Six SEPTEMBER 2024 Fiction by Adania Shibli, Théo Casciani and Agnes Lidbeck. A philosophical review of the EU’s AI Act. 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 handiwork & a new understanding of a fairytale…

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Europe Special 2024 – Extra Edition JUNE 2024 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…

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Issue Five APRIL 2024 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…

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Issue Four NOVEMBER 2023 Issue Four is blue – sky blue. In its pages: Schwarzeneggerology, Xi Jinping’s big beige books, peripheral Europe, art avant l’art, palindrome divas, medieval darlings, Jim Jarmusch baking a cake and S. Ansky sharing a secret from beyond the grave. Plus: some truly bad writing advice.

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Issue Three APRIL 2023 Issue Three arrives in fuchsia. In its pages: medieval wind power, Forensic Architecture, Climate commentary as tragedy & farce, fashionable fascism, Ukrainian jokes, romance in Kuala Lumpur, words and worlds found in translation. Who guards the dream of Europe?

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Issue Two DECEMBER 2022 Issue Two of Europe’s new république des lettres. Essays, reportage, interview, photography and experiment by writers from Europe and beyond. Wisdom for an anxious age and well-sharpened profanity for a vulgar one. New books, invented languages, resurrected darlings, and to every reader their own Dichter und Denker. Plus paranormal detectives and Chinese palindromes…

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Issue One JUNE 2022 Our first print issue, sprawling by design. Essays spanning the archaeological and the astronautical. Reviews of old books in new translation, and reviews of new books in non-translation. Plus fiction, poetry, anecdote, remembrance, collage, photography, and questions-not-so-frequently-asked.

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Issue Zero – Opuscule MAY 2021 Issue Zero was our digital opuscule, in May and June, 2021. It was a start, coincident with our crowdfunding campaign, where we could show what we wanted to publish and reflect on the endeavor itself. What should be in the European Review of Books? What could only be in the European Review of…

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