It is such a delight to be a part of the @european_review âs last edition. The editor asked me âAny fascinating stories?â, and I talked about envy- one of the most important yet the least discussed emotions.
On October 7, 2023, 70 Thai farmworkers were killed in Hamas attacks, highlighting Israeli agriculture's reliance on Thai migrantsâcontrary to Zionismâs ideals of Jews working the land. Anthropologist Matan Kaminer explores this in Capitalist Colonial.
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Issue 7 is waiting for you in bookstores around the world. Here, you can see it at the H'ART Museum Shop in Amsterdam. Explore the latest essays, stories, and ideas in a breathtakingly beautiful design. Where will you pick up your copy?
Sergei Lebedevâs The Lady of the Mine (2025) unfolds in a Ukrainian coal-mining town, where the past lies buriedâuntil one day, corpses rain from the sky after a jetliner is shot down.
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Hereâs something to lift the January gloom: 30% off digital + print subscriptions to the European Review of Books.
Dive into essays, stories and ideas that keep the grey at bay. Offer ends after (blue) Monday.
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Wiegertje Postma: « Each carpet pattern is wild in its own right (I imagine you could stomach looking at them for the length of exactly one brief hotel stay), but lugged together, I feel they have an almost hypnotic effect. »
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Our editors picked their favorite photos from Issue Six
George Blaustein: « That mermaid tattoo on the manâs right arm, tipped ninety degrees to the west: a work of art within a work of art. »
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Issue Six explores photographyâs past & future.
Editorâs pick: Blue Memoir by Andra Zoltaiâboys playing in the Danubeâs low waters.
Sander Pleij: « This photo captures the human condition in one image: a beautiful tragedy. »
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What ties Gretel to her witch? Elina Nerantzi delves into Louise GlĂŒckâs Gretel in Darkness to uncover Gretelâs âhappily ever afterâ and her haunting inability to forget.
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May we present: ERB Issue Seven, in a shade of brown usually found only in the richest, milkiest of Belgian chocolate pralines.
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Issue Seven is almost here, in a shade of brown usually only found in the richest, milkiest of Belgian chocolate pralines. Another pralineal parallel: the real treat is on the inside.
In Issue Six, Werner Sollors explores the cityâs ruins, the mystery of its unreadable cuneiform language, and the Persian Shah who shaped their journeys.
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Poet Mia You isnât a collector, but she does collect translations of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Her collection includes Italian, German, Castilian Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Frisian, and two Dutch editions.
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In the short story Adania Shibli wrote for Issue Six, an engineer sits in his workspace, overlooking a puzzling, colorless cityscape of tightly stacked buildings.
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Tonight at the n+1 office! Join the editors of @european_review for readings and conversation. Entry is free; drinks are cheap!
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People of NY & the surroundings thereof! Tomorrow night the ERBâs editors will be at @nplusonemag , interviewed by the legendary @markkrotov . Some readings, some arguments, some cheap beer, some good weird magazines.
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