Issue Four

Issue Four of the ERB is blue – sky blue – and within its covers are some first-rate forays and unlikely excavations. Ali Smith on Virginia Woolf. George Blaustein on Schwarzeneggerology. The most important unreviewed books of our times (all four volumes of Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China), reviewed. You also won’t want to miss Issue Four’s inquiries into peripheral Europe, Paleolithic art, ancient mining practices and medieval darlings. Nor its stories about Jim Jarmusch, a Polish graveyard, a Greek island, Italian post-pandemic life and Ukrainian longing. Plus: some truly bad writing advice.