The European Review of Books – Issue #06

The European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas in English and in a writer’s own tongue.

'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. It contains stuff about Europe and stuff from Europe. Long-form and short-form.
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 with fingers, giving an altogether new reading experience and allowing you to keep track of your progress through the publication.

Issue Six 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.