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 Eurovision Song Contest, the puzzle of who’ll speak European, Curzio Malaparte and an editor that keeps a €0-bill in his wallet…
Flags & bones
On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath…
Who will speak European? A puzzle
Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the…
Cretan Europa’s second coming
Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition,…
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