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Europe

  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • To see a city

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    « What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something…

  • Europas & bulls

    Europas & bulls

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    A logo might start as a designer’s whim. Only then does one look for meanings to fill it with. On Europas: mythic, artistic, fictional, political, psychological, satirical, and finally unfinished.

  • It wasn’t the beer

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    How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times…

  • Who will speak European? A puzzle

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    Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.

  • Cretan Europa’s second coming

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    Citizen’s day in Fiesole, December 2021. In the EU, Christian Europe stands in quantum superposition, both here and not here. Can Cretan Europa help us imagine better futures?

  • The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness

    The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness

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    « Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more…

  • Football is not football

    Football is not football

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    How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth…

  • A kayak in Zierikzee

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    Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.

  • Do we need a European Review of Books?

    Do we need a European Review of Books?

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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?