European Review of Books #12
198 x 270 mm, 144 pages
Maastricht, Netherlands (English-language)
First launched 2022
Triannual
Founding editors: George Blaustein, Sander Pleij and Wiegertje Postma
Editor: Fernanda Eberstadt
Design: Patrick Doan
‘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. This twelfth edition sports a dashing tangerine cover, and carries forward the changes introduced in the last issue: the perforated page edges that forced the reader to tear them open for access have been ditched, a wise decision in our view.
Flick through these newly accessible pages to learn about the degradation of language in the age of AI; Ireland’s fragile subsea cable network; the climate anxiety evoked through a viewing of Vittore Grubicy de Dragon’s 1887 painting ‘Neve in Agosto’ (‘Snow in August’); the revelations of a new book by Anna Thomasson, delving into photographer Lee Miller’s wartime and postwar photography; and much more.
On the Journal
At Work With Sander Pleij: ‘The ERB is necessarily more experimental, and even chaotic, than the London Review of Books and New York Review of Books (great magazines!). Experimental because while there is a ‘European’ orbit to the endeavour, it’s an orbit without a set center or superstructure. We need other metaphors: knocking on a thousand doors at once? We begin from the sense that ‘European’ is curiously up for grabs, and we very much want to keep it up for grabs.’
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