The European Review of Books #6

The European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas, in English and in a writer’s own tongue. They publish book-length print issues three times a year, and digital pieces each week.

No review of books reviews only books, nor does it merely review. They publish many kinds of writing: fiction, travelogue, provocation, parody, poem, come what may. In general they champion the essayistic mode.

A good essay is the antidote to the measly opinion, the enemy of the airy platitude. They want avenues to the arcane, the profane, the grand.

Issue #6 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 handiwork & a new understanding of a fairytale witch’s intentions.

All with the ERB’s remarkable print design: turn the pages to read, cut the pages for a second layer of depth and digression.