200 x 270 mm, 162 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 eleventh edition comes wrapped in a gentle sage colour, and rings the changes inside: 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 those newly accessible pages to learn about a descent into European populist algorithms on TikTok; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio on a French stage; 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. 

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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