Subscribers have full access to the expanding library of the European Review of Books.
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Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
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A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »
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On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?
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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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Who, what, and why? Imagine something called, say, the Zemblan Review of Books, or the Esperanto Review of Political Theory, or the Klingon Review of Horticulture, or the Utopian Review of Bicycles.
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« If I were to do it again from scratch, » Jean Monnet, a founder of the European Union, supposedly said in the ’70s, « I would start with culture. » Well, who wouldn’t?