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‘Books? Review? Europe? A European Review of Books would sound thrice-doomed. And yet here we are.’ Here they are indeed. The ERB is made up of the things you'd expect: fiction, essays, poetry, art, and reviews about Europe and from Europe. But there are also things inside you might not expect to find: pops of colours, ‘pearls’ of wisdom, multilingual articles, and pages joined together by perforated edges which need to be (gently) torn open to continue reading and keep track of your progress through the publication. The ninth edition is graceful aquamarine-blue and features: essays on the war in Ukraine, Alexander Faludy’s essay on Hungarian politics, a travelogue by Kapka Kassabova, where blueberries and mushrooms deepen the human-plant kinship, Ines Weizman’s essay on the lost architecture of ‘Palestinian Riviera‘, and more. On the Journal: At Work With Sander PleijBefore ERB, Sander worked at two Dutch weeklies: De Groene Amsterdammer and Vrij Nederland, and wrote, ‘Explicador’, a novel that ‘desperately needs to be translated into English’. He is currently writing a novelistic anti-biography of Rem Koolhaas. We meet him as issue one The European Review of Books hits shops... READ MORE europeanreviewofbooks.com
