The European Review of Books #11

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.

MAY 2026

A breath of fresh air as the summer heat sets in — sage. This issue: A descent into European populist algorithms on TikTok, and a descent into the European unconscious. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio on a French stage, and the birth of simultaneous translation on the stage of the Nuremberg Trials. The wartime lessons learned by Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust & Romain Roland in the 1910s, and the wartime lessons learned by a Ukrainian geese herder in the 2020s. A fishy kiss from Julio Cortázar, psychopathic AI, fathers and sons holding hands. Fiction by Ananda Devi, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo & Oksana Vasyakina.