Issue Six
Issue Six is luxuriously lilac on the outside, and its contents are equally lush. Fiction by Adania Shibli, Théo Casciani and Agnes Lidbeck. The EU’s new AI Act, reviewed. 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…
Europe Special 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…
Issue Five
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 forgotten friend, Walter Benjamin’s…
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 Three
Issue Three of the ERB arrives in fuchsia and brims with new writing from Europe and beyond. Rem Koolhaas on Mies van der Rohe, Sarah Watling on Edda Mussolini, Fernanda Eberstadt on the crime-solving programmers & botanists of Forensic Architecture. Death in philosophy & biology, and a lively tragic optimism for a doomed planet. Ukrainian…
Issue Two
The 208 pages of ERB Issue Two are bursting with essays, reviews, reportage, interview, photography and experiment by writers from all over Europe — and beyond. It is a reading experience unto itself, designed like nothing else. TURN the pages to read, but CUT the pages — easily done with a finger — to open…
Issue One
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Issue Zero – Opuscule
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 Books? We wanted to show…